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| Superboy Prime
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| Gender
| Male
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| Publisher
| DC Comics
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| Origin
| Earth-Prime
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| First Appearance
| DC Comics Presents #87 (1985)
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| Creator(s)
| Elliot S! Maggin and Curt Swan
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| Alter ego
| Clark Kent
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| Aliases
| Superboy, The Boy, Prime
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| Abilities
| Kryptonian powers, on the level of the Silver Age Superman.
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| Affiliations
| The Sinestro Corps
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Superboy Prime is a fictional comic book character owned by DC Comics.
He is a version of Superboy (created by Jerry Siegel) that comes from a parallel universe. He began as a hero and was among the heroes that defeated the Anti-Monitor in the giant crossover limited series, Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985). He is more powerful than the Modern Age Superman, as his power levels are based on the Silver Age Superman who existed on Earth-One before 1986. He is also invulnerable to kryptonite, because, in his universe, his "Krypton" was swallowed by the sun, and no kryptonite ever came into being.
Character Origin and History
Superboy Prime is born in a parallel universe, living on a planet we call Earth-Prime. Earth-Prime is amazingly like our Earth, with no real super-heroes. This Superboy is the planet's sole meta-human. The planet resembles ours in that the DC Comics heroes, like Superman, the Flash, and Superboy, are fictional comic book characters. He was actually a survivor of a parallel version of Krypton, transported to Earth-Prime moments before Krypton's sun exploded.
Jerry and Naomi Kent discovered a makeshift spaceship crash landed on their farm. They adopted him, and it amused them to call him "Clark", since his arrival reminded them of the origin of the comic book character.
Clark grew up as an ordinary human with no superpowers. Like his fictional namesake, he did hope that one day he would become a reporter.
One day, playing off his name, he dresses in a Superman costume for a costume party. Pretending to fly, he was shocked to find himself rising in the air. Soon it was apparent he had all of the fictional Superman's powers. The coincidence of a real Krypton existing in a universe where it was also a product of fiction has never been fully explained.
When the Anti-Monitor began destroying parallel universes in Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985), Earth-Prime was one of the first to be destroyed. The Monitor, attempting to thwart the Anti-Monitor's plan, saved the heroes of various worlds, and gathered them together in a limbo dimension to save what was left of the multi-verse. The Anti-Monitor was indeed defeated by the combined effort of the heroes of several worlds. The four suvivors of these lost universes, The Golden Age Superman and Lois Lane from Eath-Two, Alexander Luthor of Earth-Three, and Superboy of Earth-Prime, went to live in a paradise pocket dimension, while the few remaining universes combined into a single Earth. In recent months, he has taken to wearing a armored suit that focuses solar energy on him, making him even more powerful. He is something we don't see often in comics, a really good hero that becomes an irredeemable villain.
Battle to the death with the Modern Age
SuperboyWe meet him again in the limited crossover series and sequel, Infinite Crisis (2007). It is years later, and driven to the limits of frustration and fear with total isolation and the grief over the destruction of his own universe, soon became an out-of-control teen-ager with powers that dwarf the current version of Superman. He was obsessed with desroying the universe of the new combined Earth, and bringing back another more perfect Earth, either his Earth-Prime or the world of his only friends, Earth-two. In the process of doing this, he crosses the line, resulting in the death of Conner Kent, the Modern Age Superboy. The guilt over this drives him further over the edge. He begins to wear armor based on the design worn by the now deceased Anti-Monitor, that focuses solar energy on him. Since, like all Kryptonians, his power comes from the exposure to something in a yellow sun's radiation, this increases his power even more.
His plans foiled by Earth's heroes, he is imprisoned on Oa by the end of the series, in the custody of the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps. He appears again in the crossover story arc, The Sinestro Corps War (2007) running through the Green Lantern related comics and specials. Due to the legal issues described in the Superboy article, he no longer wears his Superboy uniform and is merely referred to as "Boy", "Prime", or "Superman Prime". He is freed from his prison by Sinestro and his Sinestro Corps. He joins them on Qward, and is now a member of Sinestro's elite force.
Sometime during the Sinestro War, Superboy Prime was infused with so much power that he looks more adult, and officially changed his name to Superman Prime. As such, he continues his quest to destroy what he thinks of as "lesser Earths" and restore his own Earth Prime to existence.
The armor intensifies solar energy, even further enhancing his power.
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