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.

I've collected all of the newspaper strips, but don't recall ever hearing of Don Komisarow before. Checked a couple of the Golden Age volumes, and I don't think he's been credited in the reprints.

The original Shuster Studio artwork for page 12 of "The K-Metal from Krypton" recently went up for auction at ComicLink Auctions and Exchange.

Here is the item listing page.

The opening bid was one dollar, and the auction closed at $28,000

Bid history: here.

According to comic book historian Bob Hughes, the artwork for page 12 was done by Wayne Boring and Don Komisarow: "These guys did a lot of the newspaper dailies around this time.  Komisarow loved textured backgrounds.  Look at the tires, the bricks, the shading, the shadows, the creases in the suits.  Best page in the story so far."

Our reconstruction was done working from a partial photocopy, so as far as I know, this auction is the first time the full original page has ever been seen by the public.


Correcton: This is not the first time that the complete page 12 has been seen by the public; it was on previously on display at the San Diego Comic Con.

This is another one that's been in the queue for a while.

I've added Bob Rivard's Superman #400 painting



to the Superman #400 section, such that the issue now opens and closes with a painting.

Summary of recent K-Metal updates:

Corrected the narration text in the first panel of page 2.

Toned down the "Hidden Gold" painting in the sixth panel of page 5.  This fix had been done in 2005, but for some reason was not currently live on the site.

Restored Bonus Pin-Up #1 (Lois & Clark homage) and #2 (Lois in the clouds)

Colored and completed the third Pin-Up (Superman in the clouds) which had been in the pipeline since 2006, using legacy period software and techniques. (I felt like Paul McCartney, finally finishing up the third Beatles reunion track!)

The line work for all three of these pin-ups was done by Angel Criado, and I hope that taken together they give some idea of the pure fun we were having working on this project.

I also made some K-Metal Reckoning T-Shirts and Mugs available at Cafe Press because I wanted to get a T-Shirt of my own.

Maybe two.

"Skyjump"

"Strange creatures from Mars"

Thank you TELLE and I couldn't agree more.  The toned-down version is now online and live on the site:


https://k-metal.com/secret-of-the-k-metal/page-5/

Here are some more goodies I stumbled across in the archives:


(reference pencils by Angel)

Pretty much.  The description reads, "Shows huge meteor nearing Earth" (click/touch to zoom)



This is from Mark Waid's K-Metal article in Alter Ego 26 - the top shows Jerry Siegel's mimeograph, the bottom is Mark Waid's retyped version.

This article is what started the restoration project.

That is amazing, what did the script for it look like? [We see a meteor approaching earth...?]

It also amazes me sometimes that people drew things with this kind of perspective before the existence of space probes.