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The consensus is that Clark being Superboy before Superman fits if it's a universe where superheroes are an estabilished concept that have been a thing by years, so Clark isn't the first superhero and being called Superboy is acceptable because you can see it as a thing that can happen in world like this.
But is it that simple?

>>150235150 (OP)
Ma and pa Kent would say no

It's that simple

>>150235206
>Movieslop
>Outdated movieslop too

Wouldnt people ask Clark if he ever meet Superboy when he was young?

>>150235768
Maybe, but Clark could just say "I think I saw him flying overhead once or twice." because lets face it, Superboy would basically be treated like an IRL cryptid.
Heck, it's a coin toss if a given citizen of the commonwealth wouldn't characterize Mothman as a Superhero. Or at least a good boy who's trying to warn people 'bout the poor bridge maintenance.

>>150236123
It has come to my attention that Mothman is in West Virginia, not the Commonwealth of Virginia. Fuck me running.

>>150235150 (OP)
Sure but I don’t like Lex Luthor being from Smallville as well.
In fact, I don’t like Clark meeting Lex before ever meeting Lois.
But unfortunately, the show Smallville sealed that notion in generations to come.

>>150236123
>>150236161
Superboy has no problem telling his fellow classmates he exists, so I think he will more a young celebrity

>>150236201
Lex and Clark meeting when young was a thing from way before Smallville.

>>150236201
Read Birthright

>>150235231
Is it?

>>150239480
Very yes

He should be boy of steel

>>150235150 (OP)
>The consensus is that Clark being Superboy before Superman fits if it's a universe where superheroes are an estabilished concept
Not it isnt faggot. Clark is the first, Thats the consensus. Anything else is just suss.

>>150235150 (OP)
Him being with the legion makes sense in the modern era, he cuts his teeth as a hero in an era where his secret identity isn’t an issue and comes back with experience to debut as a hero in his own time

>>150236201
I feel like the biggest issue here is how small IS Smallville? Seriously, like how populous should the town be?

>>150235206
>Ma and pa Kent would say YES

>>150235768
that's what the original superboy robots were for.

>>150242028
Wouldn’t be that big. But originally the conception (by Siegel) was that Smallville actually wasn’t that far away from Metropolis, as opposed to in contemporary canon where it’s hundreds of miles away.

The biggest problem is working around the fact that a Superboy who has already announced his identity to the world (as was the case in Pre-Crisis) with pictures available of his face and profile in the Newspapers is kind of hard to play around if Superboy is headquartered in Smallville. A population of that size wouldn’t have that many viable candidates for Superboy’s secret identity (if it’s theorized he widely has one), which is why Lex in Pre-Crisis thought that Pete Ross was probably Superboy (since he would always be in trouble right around when Superboy showed up).

>>150235150 (OP)
Super is the Boy?

>>150241650
>t. retard

>>150235150 (OP)
Superman being the first superhero sounds pretentious

>>150235150 (OP)
why supermanfags want to be the JSA so bad?

>>150248933
He was, not the first hero but the first that made everyone wear funny iconic costumes

>>150242028
Smallville used to be so small that it was always a one high school town; in some comics, it's implied that Pa Kent's store was THE general type store, although the original story shows that Smallville was large enough to have an orphanage, which wasn't common, just as having a hospital isn't something that is common, in small towns.

>>150244650
>was that Smallville actually wasn’t that far away from Metropolis, as opposed to in contemporary canon where it’s hundreds of miles away.
I don't know that Jerry and Joe had that idea but you are right that many of the early stories had Smallville as near the eastern coast and not far from Metropolis. When the Donnerverse movie placed it in Kansas, that's where it's been since, and it's only Smallville (the TV show) that suggested Metropolis was also in Kansas and thus not far. Everything else, movies, comics, etc. have all said Metropolis is essentially at or near the east coast.

>>150249840
Smallville was supposed to be a rural town in the midwest, only an hour or two from the futurist city Cleveland could become in Metropolis, such that when the Kents died Superboy as Clark just look a bus ride into the city and found a job as a reporter with literally no prior education (those were the days) and only a sack on his back.

The transplanting of Metropolis and Smallville from that position has both pros and cons respectively. If you want Metropolis to be close to Gotham for World’s Finest team ups you need an East Coast Metropolis, but having Metropolis so far away from Smallville kind of breaks the suspension of disbelief as there wouldn’t be that many people moving from Smallville to Metropolis often, and hence Clark moving there and Superman showing up simultaneously strains the secret identity aspect.

>>150249393
Superman jumped high so Alan Scott could fly

>>150249840
>having a hospital isn't something that is common
Not a yank, but I was born in a town of 800 people, and it had a hospital... and three pubs.

>>150251356
Maybe in irish and british towns, but in the US a town of 2000 people has no hospitals and they need to go in the main city hospital (reason is to be assholes)

>>150252173
Australian.

>>150252192
That's what I said, british.

>>150252192
That's what he said, irish

>>150252579
>>150253009
That's not as funny as you think

>>150249814
Is that how it play out?

>>150255528
Basically yes, Flash Gordon and Popeye were the prototypes

Boy of Tomorrow

>>150255690
The Phantom too

>>150250703
>Clark moving there and Superman showing up simultaneously strains the secret identity aspect.
When I was in HS, people thought I was going to get into journalism and work for a major paper since I had been newspaper editor since I was a sophomore (more because no one cared/wanted the job and the seniors were lazy fucks) and a major that would have meant a city like Chicago or LA or New York, maybe even a few smaller 'metro areas' but given that the comics books were a national thing, it would have meant the bigger cities.

Likewise, for Clark Kent, if the Daily Planet was a big deal (think Chicago Tribune or New York Times), then it makes he head there even if it was clear across the country on one of the coast.

>>150247744
The Boy is Super

>>150258396
Orange filter!

Superkid

>>150241547
Doesn't roll off the tongue as well

>>150262309
Kid of steel

>>150262309
>>150262639
Lad of steel

>>150251356
the Smallville TV showed a hospital all the time; other TV shows do absurd things like that depicting a small town and then showing a modernish commuter train or subway type station, or an indoor mall large enough to have multiple floors and escalators (Stranger Things might have had a nearby regional mall but not on in town, for example).

>>150235150 (OP)
Superboy is fucking lame.

>>150265515
Why? He had a succesful run

>>150235150 (OP)
Isn't he gay?

>>150249814
The Spider, Zorro and the Shadow were wearing funny costumes before him.