{"id":2499,"date":"2020-06-24T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2020-08-30T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T17:11:01","slug":"417-smallville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/417-smallville\/","title":{"rendered":"417 – Smallville!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Superboy #2, March 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Superboy #2 (March 1949), it is finally established, for the first time, that the young Clark Kent lives in a town named Smallville<\/a>. As recently discussed, amidst many other superhero books getting cancelled<\/a> and characters disappearing<\/a> into the Golden Age, Superboy is the only superhero to get his own book<\/a>. I think this is significant, because, although Superboy was created in the Golden Age<\/a> (as a child of about eight or ten), if these are now stories of Superman as a teen, and this Superman grows up in the 1950s\/1960s then that makes Superboy the young version of the Silver Age Superman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that make Superboy the first Silver Age comic book character? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the Golden Age is definitely over by 1949! Most historians mark the debut of Barry Allen as the Flash as the start of the Silver Age. The Silver Age<\/a> was marked by the resurgence of new, slicker versions of superheroes from the Golden Age that had stronger supporting casts and more science-fiction based explanation of their powers. We will start to see Superboy’s supporting cast flesh out soon and establishing his hometown is the first step in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somebody saaaaaave me….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Superboy #2 (March 1949), it is finally established, for the first time, that the young Clark Kent lives in a town named Smallville. As recently discussed, amidst many other superhero books getting cancelled and characters disappearing into the Golden Age, Superboy is the only superhero to get his own book. I think this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,14,486,32,99,445,222,304,396],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-dc","tag-early-silver","tag-firsts","tag-golden-age","tag-silver-age","tag-smallville","tag-superboy","tag-superhero-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}