![]() RELATED: 'The American Way' Was Not Originally Part of Superman's Never-Ending Battleīendis hasn't just been building things up, though. By making Jon Kent the Superboy who birthed the United Planets and inspired the Legion, Bendis fixed that problem. ![]() In the pre- Crisis on Infinite Earths stories, Superboy was the inspiration for the United Planets and the Legion, but after Crisis, Superboy was erased from history and DC struggled to make the Legion work. The reason DC needed an older Superboy was to keep the mythology of the Legion intact. The Legion of Super-Heros had been shelved for nearly a decade when Bendis reintroduced them. Still, without aging Jon Kent, another major piece of Bendis' plan couldn't have happened: The return of the Legion of Super-Heroes and the birth of the United Planets. With Jon Kent, many feel that his aging happened before the time had come. ![]() The aging of Superboy from a pre-teen to a teenager is the most controversial move Bendis has made. In comics, characters rarely age naturally, but usually, when a character is aged up, it feels like the time has come to make that change. ![]()
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