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Geek History Lesson

356: Superboy (Jon Kent)

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The son of Superman/Clark Kent and Lois Lane, Jon is the newest character to assume the superhero persona of Superboy in the DC COMICS universe. Making his live action debut in CW's Superman and Lois, let's discover the comic book history of Jon Kent! Don't forget to check out our new comic: JUPITER JET & THE FORGOTTEN RADIO! Buy a copy: https://bookshop.org/books/jupiter-jet-and-the-forgotten-radio/9781632295828 Review it on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54960853-jupiter-jet-and-the-forgotten-radio Review it on Amazon: https://t.co/16WDKTUQvY?amp=1 Get your copy of Blackest Night here: https://amzn.to/2HzYG6Y GET OUR RECOMMENDED READING from this episode here: http://geekhistorylesson.com/recommendedreading Follow the show on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/GHLPodcast Make sure to visit our Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/geekhistorylesson You can find Ashley at https://twitter.com/AshleyVRobinson and Jason at https://twitter.comJawiin. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class

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0:00.0

Up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Superboy because your lesson on Jonathan Kent Superboy is now in session.

0:08.0

Hello and welcome to Geek History lesson. I am Jason Smolville-Inman. I am Ashita Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your mind university because you have stumbled onto the podcast where we take one character construct or super family member in popular culture and teach you everything.

0:32.0

You need to know about them in about an hour and today we are talking about a sweet baby angel and I'm so excited.

0:42.0

Today we are talking about Superboy and not just any Superboy because we did the Superboy on Connor Kent. You taught it. I didn't write down the episode numbers. I apologize. Go to Google everybody.

0:56.0

Yeah. But today is about Jonathan Kent, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. That is because this character is going to be making his live action debut sort of in the upcoming CW show Superman and Lois.

1:14.0

I like how you say sort of as if he's not going to be played by a real boy like Pinocchio is going to have what I meant by that is that he's not exactly this character even though it is going to be Jonathan Kent.

1:24.0

It is adaptation is adaptation. And we don't know if he'll ever become Superboy in that show. Also for he's definitely going to become Superboy.

1:31.0

For anyone who is listening and hasn't heard it already our episode 336 is our Connor Kent episode.

1:39.0

We also should give a shout out to our best Superman stories that we just did with Adam Malinger who is the writer assistant on Superman Lois.

1:47.0

This is going to be two weeks of Superman. Superboy Jonathan Kent by the way was suggested by a couple of amazing mine university students.

1:59.0

Vicky Fox Martin and Taveya Smolka. And I apologize if I mispronounce your names. We do our best.

2:07.0

We do our best. That's all. And actually if they want to be like those amazing people, where can they suggest future episodes?

2:12.0

If you want to be like our beautiful sexy PTAs, not PAs, you can do that at geekistrelesson.com, Facebook.com, such geek history lesson, or on Twitter at GHL podcast.

2:23.0

That's correct. Now before we get to the main lesson, I just want to say if you want to support geek history lesson and you want to listen to three bonus podcasts a month, you need to go check out our patron.

2:34.0

Over the patron, we have podcasts such as geek history lesson extra, which releases every single week. Actually, what is that?

2:42.0

Geek history lesson extra is where we stick around, but we get a little more casual, a little more relaxed fit. And we are just have a better, not a better, a more conversational discussion about the topic of the week.

2:52.0

The other extra podcast so you can get once a month over there is Jason and Ashley's extra excellent, excuse me, adventures. And was that podcast, Ashley?

3:00.0

We get even more relaxed, and we tell you about our personal lives, our preferences, all kinds of fun stuff.

3:05.0

And the newest podcast that's going to be premiering very soon is Jason and Jeremy, John, about Justice League, that is our Justice League animated series review podcast.

3:13.0

So if you want to listen any of those extra episodes, go to patreon.com slash jaw and become a super friend today.

3:18.0

And I want to say thanks to all super friends over there that help keep the mind university running.

3:23.0

I was waiting for you to ask me to describe your Justice League podcast, and it was going to be like, I don't know, I'm not on the show.

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