DC Comics started the trend when Batman got his “Boy Wonder,” Robin (Detective Comics #38, April 1940).
The youthful comics audience loved a hero the same age as them, so it wasn’t long before DC began printing stories about Superman when he was but a youth — Superboy.
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I assume that when seeing the title to this post, most fans of DC Comics immediately think of the shapeshifting, fire-hating martian, J’onn J’onzz who made hist first appearance in Detective Comics #225 (November 1955). Indeed, some call this character DC’s first Silver Age superhero. Other DC fans might think back a couple of years […]
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