This is early in the story in Adventure Comics #267 (as reprinted in Showcase Presents: Legion volume 1), and Superboy is gracious enough to give us a rundown of who this outlandishly-clad flying fella is.
Well, it had been 20 issues, so I don't blame him. But what gets me is that he describes it as "a stirring adventure" in his own interior monologue. That whole first encounter left a strong impression, indeed, on young Clark. I'm surprised he doesn't refer to that "rousing yarn" he took part in when he meets Lightning Lad soon after.
I also like how he puts "The Legion of Super-Heroes" in quotation marks. Comic books used to go all kinds of crazy with quotes, commas, and all kinds of punctuation, but in this case it almost looks like Superboy thinks it's a BS name. "Ah, it's Cosmic Boy from the so-called Legion."
Or maybe he believes the Legion is a fictional creation. Hey, you don't suppose he KNOWS that we read that stirring adventure in issue #247, do you?
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