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This article is about the original Superboy who is Superman as a boy. For similarly named DC Comics characters see Superboy.The name of Superman as a boy Superboy has adventures that occur in the relative past to those of Superman and take place predominantly in his hometown of Smallville. Superboy is from the destroyed planet Krypton where he was born under the name Kal-El and lives on Earth under the secret identity of mild-mannered student Clark Kent.