Two Superboy adventures take place simultaneously! On the Boy of Steel's very own cartoon show, he must face off with the dastardly duo of Lock 'n' Lode. Meanwhile in the real world, Superboy may be succumbing to a disease that seems to have deadly effects on clones.

After escaping near death by volcano, Superboy, Rex tells S.B. that he made a cartoon staring Superboy! Everyone sits down to watch the episode to discover that Rex has turned himself into a rich do gooder, Dubbilex, into his butler, and Roxy into slime, while Superboy is young ward. After the episode Superboy, still being sick from all the volcanic toxins he has in-hailed from the last issue, goes into the kitchen to get some water, and then collapses! Could Superboy really be dead?