Bob Cobb

Bob Cobb is a fictional identity adopted by Mon-El during the few times when he lived in Smallville and needed to adopt a civil identity. He was a traveling salesman specialized in domestic-use brushes. The name was suggested by Jonathan Kent.

The Bob Cobb identity was used only briefly, but in at least three distinct occasions, one of them between Crisis and Zero Hour.

• In his origin story, published in Superboy v1 89 (June 1961).
• In the first Mordru story, in Adventure Comics 369 (June 1968).
• The post-Crisis appearance was in Legion of Super-Heroes v3 37 (August 1987) and Superman v2 8 (also August 1987) (both books cover the exact same scene, in flashback in the Superman book).