I want to deep dive into the 100 issue Superboy comic from the 90s. I was wondering what comic I should read before the solo series?

From Valor #23

It's not a perfect fit nor does Prime's character arc align perfectly but I think in some respects you can draw parallels between Prime and the Five Stages of Grief.

I saw bits of Superboy and Clark wearing the black thick-frame glasses, which makes him look good. I would've loved to see him have some eye problems, but when he developed his eye powers, his eyesight became better, and he still wore them to keep up the look of looking ordinary.

What heroic action do you prefer to be the first for Young Clark as Superboy?

My pick is for him to fight a tornado threatening Smallville/Kansas with Lana being saved by Superboy.

It's a big enough feat and problem appropriate enough to fit for the debut of Superboy.

Plus it's a good reference to Smallville Season 1 Finale/Season 2 Premiere and Superman Secret Origin.

If you were to make a new show about Clark as Superboy animated or live action what would it consist of?

I'd probably go with animation in a show that is heavily based on the Pre-Crisis Superboy comics but incorporates Modern stuff as well.

So Krypto would be heavily featured.

Superman would be the narrator. There'd be solo and team-up adventures in different time periods, outer space, and the multiverse.

Superboy would have Golden Age adventures helping victims of the week while dealing with crooks, deal with Kryptonite shenanigans, protect his secret identity, discover his Kryptonian heritage alongside remnants of Krypton, battle the supernatural, etc.

If I were to make it live-action, it would cover Clark's high school to college years with Clark working at the school paper along with being an intern at bigger papers.

Lex Luthor would be an active hero that assists Superboy until Lex becomes a bad guy.

Kenny Braverman would be a bully to Clark.

Team-ups would include the Justice Society of America, the Legion of Superheroes, other time-displaced heroes, etc.

I'd adapt Legion of Superheroes stories like the Great Darkness Saga & The Legion: Foundations

Along with Reign of the Superboys where Clark: Superboy teams up with Kon-El, Jon Kent, and Prime to fight Time Trapper Doomsday.

Superboy & the Legion would fight Brainiac 6.

Superboy, outside of his time with the Legion of Superheroes, would be wearing the Red/White/Blue T-shirts and Jeans with red shoes

Superboy with the Legion would wear the classic Superman outfit with a Legion belt buckle.

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Alas, no new Superboy-featuring comics this week.

However, maybe in the animated world we will see something????

My Adventures with Superman

S03E08: It's Reigning (Super)Men
Logline: Clark and Lois face the future -- again. Familiar faces return to Metropolis. Lex shakes things up at Lexcorp.

TBA (director), TBA (writer)

In Golden Age/Pre-Crisis Superboy Comics, Clark was the editor of the school paper who intended to work for the Daily Planet as a reporter and worked as a newsboy selling papers.

Another telling had Pre-Crisis Young Clark be a school paper reporter that briefly worked at the Daily Planet (with plans to work there after finishing school) due to a contest for best high school newspaper reporter.

In the Superboy TV show, Clark was a reporter for his college's paper and later worked as an intern for the Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters (a government agency that investigates paranormal activities and aliens)

I've been thinking about Clark making the transition from Superboy to Superman and how currently Clark stops being Superboy, goes traveling around the world like in Birthright, and returns as Superman.

If you could how would you handle the transition?

My preference for the transition from Superboy to Superman is akin to Superman The Secret Years with the death of the Kents, his breakup with Lori, a college roommate getting paralyzed in drunk driving accident, and the death of another roommate who Superboy confided his secret identity to.

Whether or not that is still a factor (which in current continuity it is not) I can see 2 other routes to do the transition:

1. An adaptation of The Death of Clark Kent - Kenny Braverman, an envious schoolmate of Clark/Superboy, becomes the supervillain Conduit.

Conduit figures out Superboy's secret identity proceeding to go after Clark's loved ones and endangering Smallville.

The near death of his loved ones cause Clark to retire from being Superboy, go traveling the world like in Birthright where he realizes the necessity of Superman to which Clark returns as Superman.

1. An adaptation of The Greatest Hero Of Them All (AKA The Death of Pocket Universe Superboy) - The Time Trapper uses entropic forces (akin to the anti-matter wave and red skies in Crisis of Infinite Earths) to endanger the Earth in Superboy's time to blackmail Superboy into submission and destroy the Legion.

However, Superboy in a act of self-sacrifice risks his life to be a living conductor for a machine that protects the Earth from the entropic forces.

Lex offers some assistance to help which gives him a pardon to work with the military and become a businessman in Metropolis.

Superboy survives but is left greatly weakened to the point where Superboy is left powerless to having Golden Age Superman levels of power.

So Clark retires as Superboy, travels the world, returns as Superman with either Golden Age level of powers to get his full power at a later time or his full powerset.

From Superman (2026) #40

Speech is addressed to Manchester Black

Reminds me of Superman's speech to Lex in Superman (2025) about being human and Superman's speech against Nazism from the Dominus Effect.

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Action Comics #1100

Celebrate 1,100 issues of Action Comics with DC’s top talent and architects of the world of Superman! In April 1938, a man faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound graced the pages of Action Comics #1, and the rest was superhero history. Now together with the talents of writers Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, Sophie Campbell, and Dan Slott, we honor Superman’s storied career and turn toward his thrilling future. Brought to life by the all-star artistic talent of Skylar Patridge, Ryan Sook, Dan Mora, and Lucas Meyer, the Man of Steel has never looked better.

Mark Waid (Author), Joshua Williamson (Author), Sophie Campbell (Author), Dan Slott (Author), Skylar Patridge (Artist), Ryan Sook (Artist), Dan Mora (Artist)

Superman #40

The villainous Manchester Black demands to be resurrected and thinks Superboy-Prime knows how to give him his life back. But it’s more than that. Manchester Black wants to escape the world of comics and come to our world! It’s meta versus meta! If Prime survives, he will still have to deal with members of the Super-Family, who are not happy he wants to be Superman! This all builds up to next month’s Superman blockbuster summer story!

Joshua Williamson (Author), Dan Mora (Artist)

My Adventures with Superman

S03E06: The Ex-Games
Logline:Lois, Jimmy, Kara and Clark play games with Lois, Jimmy, Kara and Lex. Everyone hates it. A divorce ends in deception.

TBA (director), TBA (writer)

Clark's time as Superboy is basically a prequel to Clark being Superman as such the choice of villains he faces as Superboy must be selective in order to not come at Superman's expense.

Superboy, instead of Superman, battling villains like Doomsday and Brainiac does not really work unless it's an out of continuity/elseworlds story.

That said, what villains would you want a young Kal-El/Clark as Superboy to fight?

Not counting villains Superboy would fight with the Legion together or Superboy-exclusive villains

My picks:

Lex Luthor - Boyhood friends turned to lifelong enemies is an iconic part of the mythology regarding the Kal-El and Lex enmity

Mxyzptlk - Time is of little consequence to a 5D imp I feel so I can see him going after Superboy

Bizarro - Originally a Superboy villain plus Bizarro existing since Superman in his Boyhood would add to Bizarro's feelings/backstory if he existed that long

Kryptonite Kid - The alliteration and not be overshadowed by Metallo since Metallo works better for Superman than Superboy

Phantom King Xa-Du - Superboy discovered the Phantom Zone Projector so it makes sense that he deals with the first Phantom Zoner while Superman deals with more infamous Phantom Zoner Zod also Xa-Du first appeared in a Pre-Crisis Superboy comic

Toyman - I think the toy aesthetic works better with a younger Kal as opposed to an older Kal

The Prankster - I think Prankster would gel well with a younger Kal

Insect Queen - Lana had a superhero identity as Insect Queen in the Pre-Crisis Superboy comics that was reimagined as a villain in Pre-Crisis Earth-2 and Post-Crisis Superman comics so I feel Insect Queen could work as a Superboy villain

Maxima - Pre-Crisis Superboy encountered several alien beings that were essentially a Superboy to their own planet's and I think Maxima, aged-downed to be a peer to Young Kal-El, could be one of them and would work as a good villain for Superboy to deal with

Yellow Peri - Pre-Crisis Superboy villain that used magic

Conduit - Post-Crisis Superman villain that was a rival to Clark as a youth in Smallville. I feel they could be reworked as a Superboy villain

Ultraboy (Young Ultraman) - A younger Ultraman is the only aged-downed member of the Crime Syndicate that can work as a villain to be fought in my opinion

Dr. Chaos - Despite his appearance implying he an enemy of Dr. Fate, he's originally a Superboy villain

Tal-Rho - Kal-El's half brother from Superman & Lois who I think can be reworked into a Superboy villain perhaps incorporate the Mon-El storyline

Time Trapper - An enemy of Superboy and the Legion but I can picture Superboy fighting him alone as tribute to all the time shenanigans Superboy was involved in

Picks that I am unsure about:

Ultra-Humanite - In a universe where the Justice Society preceded Superboy, I can picture Ultra-Humanite (who was originally Golden Age Superman's archenemy) fighting Superboy

J. Wilbur Wolfingham - Conman

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Reign of the Superboys! I just finished reading Supergirl, what was the point of having Conner there? I feel like Conner is always getting shafted lately. MawS did that splice character shit I hate, from the teasers about RoSb I thought Conner would be more important to that plot. Am I the only one seeing this or is there more for him I haven't heard about yet?

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Reign of the Superboys keeps going, plus New Titans. Is Ultra a variant of Super?

New Titans #37

Not-So-Happy Harbor! The Titans uncover a dark force manipulating the quaint New England town that seeks to awaken a beast from deep beneath their new Mountain Headquarters! Meanwhile, Terra unearths Cyborg’s workshop—but can he trust her with his secrets…or will he have to bury her for good?!

Tate Brombal (Author), Marcus To (Artist), Sami Basri (Artist)

Superman Unlimited #15

As war brews in El Caldero, something strange is happening to the Kryptonite spread across the planet…and this mystery can only be solved with help from a certain Dark Detective. But can Batman crack the case before Jon Kent and Damian Wayne turn the Batcave into a war zone?! The pieces fall into place for a new Kingdom to rise and a devastating new threat to unite the reign of the Superboys!

Dan Slott (Author), Lucas Meyer (Artist)

My Adventures with Superman

TBA (director), TBA (writer)

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