New Superboy/Legion Stuff

[Gangbuster]

There hasn't been a new Superboy thread since 2007, so I thought I'd give an update:

Copyright: after the Siegel family terminated the copyright, a judge eventually ruled that Superboy (including the Smallville TV series) was included in an earlier agreement that the Siegel family made with DC. All the reprints now carry the notice "by arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family." (Smallville ended in 2011, but the boxed set maybe appears to contain the first official release of the 1961 Superboy pilot.)

Reprints:

- An "Adventures of Superboy" hardcover reprinted the whole More Fun Comics run and early Adventure Comics to about 1947.
- The Greatest Superboy Team-Ups Ever Told TPB has 12 stories from the 50s to the 80s.
- Superboy: A Celebration of 75 Years HC reprinted stories from every character named Superboy, but it is the first to reprint the first Lana story, has the Superboy Prime story, and Mordru the Merciless.
- There was a Legion of Super-Heroes: 1050 Years of the Future compilation TPB.
-  DC Finest: The Superdog from Krypton has 1954-55 in Superboy and Adventure Comics
- There was a new edition of Superboy and Superpup: The Lost Videos, with the plot summaries for the show
- All of the Bronze Age Legion has been collected in hardcover now: After Archive #13, there was Superboy and the Legion v1-2, Before the Darkness v1-2, Great Darkness Saga and The Curse Deluxe Edition. The Superboy and the Legion treasury-sized book was also reprinted in hardcover.

The DC Events (Infinite/Final Crisis, etc.)

Infinite Crisis brought back Superboy Prime, but as a murderer. He continued to be a villain representing toxic comic fans, sometimes comedically. (He ransacked and threatened the Earth-Prime DC Comics offices in the 2009 Adventure Comics series, complaining about how he had been portrayed) and at one point even became the Time Trapper. More recently he's gotten a redemption arc.

The "Retroboot" Legion continued the Legion's history starting in 2007 with the Lightning Saga, then Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, then Superman and the Legion. There was a new Adventure Comics series, a 2009 Legion series, a new REBELS series, and two series during the New 52 era. They had crossovers with Star Trek, Scooby Doo, and Batman '66.

Since the Doomsday Clock event, the compromise on Superman's backstory is that he was Superboy, but that the Kents also did not die.


Recent
Beginning with Action Comics #1087-1099 (so far), Mark Waid has been writing probably the first Superboy-in-Smallville series since the TV tie-in the early 90s. The first TPB just came out. A new Legion series has also just been announced.