On the Horhaus blog, artist Karl Kerschl discusses the Case of the Disappearing Superboy in the Teen Titans origin story that appears in 52 Week 47:
I did a two-page Teen Titans origin story in the latest issue of 52 (issue 47), and there was a change on one of the pages. Superboy had to be removed from the Young Justice scene for legal reasons (DC is in a rights dispute with the creators of the character) and in this case the most elegant solution was to replace him with a similar shot of Wonder Girl. It worked out fine, but I thought I’d post this for anyone wondering where the heck Superboy was in the pages of history.
He was there! We all saw him!
On a related note: After seeing Kerschl’s art in that backup story, I’m really looking forward to Teen Titans: Year One.
March 30th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Lame (because I love Kon-El) but understandable (’cause DC doesn’t need any more trouble for running Superboy in their stories).
March 30th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Hm…if I’m not mistaken, this may be the first official confirmation that Superboy’s dead due to the legal issues.
Which still seems odd to me — they kinda took their time killing him off, didn’t they? Why use him in multiple issues of Infinite Crisis at all if they’re worried about somebody else having a claim on him?
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I’m still curious why they can’t use Superboy but can keep Superboy Prime around if it isegal reasons.
April 10th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Why not just say “Oh, that’s Superman as a teen…you know, like in the Legion cartoon.”