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The character was created by writer/artist Dan Jurgens and first appeared in DC's "Convergence" event in the miniseries Convergence: Superman #2 (July 2015). [1] [2] Half Kryptonian and half-human, Jon is the biological son of post-Crisis Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane and the couple's child in DC Comics canon. [3]
Superboy-Prime (Clark Kent, born Kal-El), also known as Superman-Prime or simply Prime, is a DC Comics superhero turned supervillain and an alternate version of Superman.The character first appeared in DC Comics Presents #87 (November 1985) [1] and was created by Elliot S. Maggin and Curt Swan (based upon the original Superboy character by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster).
Jonathan "Jon" Kent was born in Convergence: Superman #2 (July 2015). After Convergence, he and his parents relocated to the New 52 universe, where the Kent family lived in secrecy for many years. He was officially introduced as Superboy in Superman (vol. 4) #6 (November 2016).
Man of Steel features a redesigned Superman costume by James Acheson and Michael Wilkinson. The costume preserves the color scheme and "S" logo, but adopts darker tones, and notably does not feature the red trunks usually worn by Superman. Zack Snyder said the costume is "a modern aesthetic".
Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 1 (trade paperback 132 pages, October 2003, DC Comics, ISBN 978-0930289287) The story has also been adapted in other countries. In 1995, Battleaxe Press comics in South Africa released the series under the name Superman as an introduction to the character before publishing newly released comics from DC. [26]
In Kingdom Come, Superman wears a black and red, simplified version following his return. After the Imperiex War, Superman wore the black and red variant to signify his mourning of the losses during the war. [4] The Eradicator, for a time, wore a red and blacked, curvier version of the S-Shield. Bizarro's symbol is a reversed purple and yellow ...
In the 2004 Superman miniseries Superman: Birthright, Lara, along with Krypton and Jor-El, more or less again became their Silver Age versions, though with updated touches. In this version, Lara is treated as a fully equal partner to Jor-El in constructing Kal-El's spacecraft and in designing various key components.
Cir-El's "trademark" power is the ability to release stored energy from her hands as blasts of red solar radiation (the very wavelength of sunlight that Superman loses his powers under) that strike an enemy with intense heat and force she named "Red Sunbursts". Like Superman, she is also vulnerable to Kryptonite. [4]