He returned to Metropolis with Supergirl and Steel, where Tana visited him, informing him that she quit her job and was leaving town for good. With the defeat of the Cyborg, the clone acknowledged that the "man in black" was indeed the one, true Superman.
Despite minor injuries, Superboy returned to the fight in Engine City, saving the life of Steel. The teen clung to the missile as it was launched and managed to alter its course before it reached Metropolis. While the young clone and Steel were skeptical about his claim, they joined him to attack Engine City, discovering a huge missile capable of wiping out a city inside. The warsuit miraculously housed the real Superman who was still very weakened from his resurrection. He warned everyone that the Cyborg Superman was responsible and Metropolis was in danger, when a humongous Kryptonian War Suit emerged from the water. the teen Superman was able to flee back to Metropolis, arriving to find Steel, Luthor, Lois Lane and Supergirl gathered near the harbor. In a surreptitious play for power, Mongul told Superboy Metropolis was their next target for obliteration, hoping it would prompt the captive into escaping and defeat the Cyborg for him. The Cyborg and his servant, Mongul, used young Superman's image via video feed to trick the Justice League of America into going off world on a wild goose chase. The ruse ended in the kid's imprisonment inside Engine City. Īfter hearing Coast City had been destroyed, Superman rushed to ground zero where he was duped by the Cyborg Superman into joining him in a mock investigation. The teen worked together with his female counterpart to rescue as many people as they could from the tragically engineered disaster. After a destructive battle between the two, Supergirl joined the inexperienced hero's side, forcing Stinger to enact his escape plan of destroying the Hobsneck Bridge. Vinnie Edge, eager to boost ratings, hired an assassin known only as Stinger to attack his Superman on live television. While informally agreeing to Lex Luthor's proposal, the young Superman went back on his word, seduced into an exclusive contract with Rex Leech, effectively persuaded upon meeting his teenage daughter Roxy. He was soon approached by Supergirl to work with her at LexCorp.
Superman's arrogance was knocked down a peg, and he repaid Steel's lesson in humility by saving him from a fire. His reckless heroics led to the death of a Daily Planet helicopter pilot, for which he was severely reproached for by Steel. "Superman" loved the limelight and attention from beautiful women, but was blinded by naiveté. Edge arranged for Superboy to go into Suicide Slum where he apprehend a gangster named Steel Hand, and encountered Guardian who gave the cocky kid some friendly advice. Two of them, "the Man of Tomorrow" ( Cyborg Superman) and "the Last Son of Krypton" ( the Eradicator), insisted they were the real Superman resurrected, while "the Man of Steel" ( John Henry Irons) made no such claim, nor did the young clone who was open about his origin to Lois Lane, thought he insisted on being called "Superman" not "Superboy"! He became enamoured with reporter Tana Moon, who he granted an exclusive live on WGBS, a station under the direction of the unscrupulous Vinnie Edge. The clone's arrival in Metropolis coincided with three others taking up the mantle of "Superman". One of the boys gave him a leather jacket before he set out into the city, where he had his first encounter with a villain when he found Sidearm attempting to steal money from an ATM.
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Artificially aged to his mid-teens and implanted with the equivalent of a high school education, Superboy was set free by the Newsboy Legion before he could be implanted with safeguards to control him. Superboy was created by Project Cadmus using Kryptonian DNA, intended as a replacement for Superman who died fighting Doomsday.
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