Georgetown boy fights illness, in running to become a comic book hero

Brendon Carl is a student at Mitchell Elementary.
Brendon Carl is a student at Mitchell Elementary.

Ten-year-old Mitchell Elementary student Brendon Carl used to be able to run, jump and play like Spider-Man. Now, his movement is limited by Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.

When his mother, Sara Carl, learned about a contest hosted by the Stan Lee Foundation that would turn him into a superhero in a comic book, she saw it as an opportunity to make her son's dreams of feeling like Superman come true whi…