Talk:Superboy (Kal-El)

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I started the talk page by adding the WP Superman tag.Spiderboy12 03:06, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite December 2007

I heavily rewrote Superboy (Kal-El) because I felt the article could use a more in-depth examination of Superboy's publishing history and a longer summary of his fictional life. I also included a summary of the main writers and artists who have worked on Superboy, along with the editors they worked under.

Note that I tried to incorporate what was already included in the article. An editor recently added a list of Superboy's "first encounters", and you'll find most of them listed in the text since I agree that backdating first meetings with Superman's friends, allies and foes is a major motif in the Silver and Bronze Age Superboy stories.

I invite analysis, critique and certainly if someone wants, edits. I have some concern that parts of the biography are repetitive of the publishing history, and perhaps overall is a bit long (though certainly not long compared to Superboy (Kon-El) or a number of other characters whose Wikipedia entries mostly consist of long biographies). Spiderboy12 (talk) 03:10, 19 December 2007 (UTC)