Context is Superman (1939) #300, page 7
Transcript:
Scientist #1: Great Scott! The hatch is opening--
Scientist #1: --and a baby is coming out!
Scientist #2: Look! He's as invulnerable to the laser as is his rocket!
Kal-El: I am hungry!
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This is so weird, but the amount of information in this one panel would be sufficient for 1 episode / entire series today:
Bonus: Questionable Ethics of the Luther Corp for experiments on children. Did this happen to others?
Foreshadowing on Episode 2: Unstoppable Child discovers its abilities, Series turns into a prison break from high security laboratory with Superman and Batman villains at various ages. (Basically "The new Mutants")
The part where the hatch opens needs a frame where one of the guards freaks out and fires a laser before others stop him. Then it would be clear how the fuck did they discover the laser-resistance.
It's even simpler than that... they were firing the laser at the hatch when it opened, and the laser beam hit the "baby" before they'd had a chance to turn it off.
You'd want to save the 7th part for later. Just show the child emerging at the very end of episode 1 so you can have a cliffhanger.
Episode 2 is where the laser happens as part of the unethical experiments and the child discovering / being forced to develop their powers. You'd want a B plot and maybe even a C plot running during this episode so it's not just 30 minutes of child lasering though.
The Laser scene could be used as Segway to the experiments, introducing some of the other kids (not evil yet) as subplot B and even maybe the mother of Lois lane (Journalist too) as C Plot (including rescue of her and her daughter in the finale by the shadow of a small boy).