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Dr. Winger admits that he's responsible for Superboy's latest (and dangerous) adventure. The alternate version of Luthor works to save Superboy who has lost a lot of blood and needs a transfusion to live. Dr. Luthor asks Superman, who is now retired and an old friend, father figure and mentor to him to help. Superman agrees and donates blood.
Versions of the characters have appeared in television shows, animated series and films since 1960, including a syndicated TV series from 1988 to 1992. Smallville , a popular WB / CW show aired from 2001 to 2011, was based on the classic Superboy characters, superheroic adventures of a pre-Superman Clark Kent, and guest appearances by an ...
The Hypertension storyline in Superboy #60-64 (1999) shows an alternative version of Kon-El named Black Zero. Black Zero is a genetically altered human clone of Superman (just as Kon-El was from 1993 to 2003) that has successfully grown to adulthood after Superman dies at the hands of Doomsday. For a time, he acts as the new Superman, even ...
Superboy was conceived as a way to utilize one of the licenses that father-son duo Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind had been in possession of for over a decade. In order to produce the first entry in the Superman series of films starring Christopher Reeve, the Salkinds had to pay Warner Bros. a fee to license the intellectual property.
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).
One of the Westfields was personally responsible for the death of his alternate reality's Superboy with the latter surviving long enough to warn the mainstream reality's Superboy of Black Zero. Due to that Westfield jumping into a Hyperium reactor later in the story, he and all alternate reality versions of Paul Westfield were simultaneously ...
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Superboy (also known as Kon-El or Conner Kent) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.A modern variation on the original Superboy, the character first appeared as Superboy in The Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993), and was created by writer Karl Kesel and artist Tom Grummett.