Superboy #76

Cover Artist: Possibly Al Plastino.

As Pa Kent feeds a monkey in the zoo some popcorn (can't that idiot read the "Do Not Feed The Animals" sign?), Ma, Pa and Clark reminisce about the Super-Monkey from Krypton. It turns out that there was a monkey stowaway on the rocket that brought Superboy from Krypton to Earth. Somehow, the monkey made his way from Smallville, Kansas, to the African jungle, where he had all sorts of wacky adventures learning about his super-powers and thinking in a "Tarzan-esque" dialect ("Big cat try to bite me, but only broke his teeth! Me must be hard like rock!")

Eventually, Super-Monkey finds Superbaby back in Smallville, and causes all sorts of kooky misunderstandings that get poor Superbaby in trouble. Finally, Super-Monkey sets a box of firecrackers off, and it scares him so much that he flies off into space, where he is then chased even further into space by a "harmless" comet, and is never seen again. I wonder if poor Super-moneky starved to death, or whether the loneliness of being exiled in outer space drove him to suicide...?

By the way, Superbaby talks with the same "Tarzan" dialect as Super-Monkey.