{"id":2080,"date":"2020-02-18T08:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2020-01-25T13:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T21:24:47","slug":"326-superman-power-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/326-superman-power-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"326 &#8211; Superman Power Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-xray-lead.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;The Molten World&quot; in Superman #43, September 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-xray-lead.png 714w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-xray-lead-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from &#8220;The Molten World&#8221; in Superman #43, September 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Superman #43 (September 1946), Superman faces off against Luthor again.  This time Luthor has invented a super-hard material he calls Luthorite.  The story lets writers enumerate new powers and abilities, as well as a weakness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2072\">photographic memory<\/a>, but it is revealed that Superman cannot see through lead with his x-ray vision (as shown above).  It is also shown that his super-suit is invulnerable (though no explanation is given):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"562\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-suit-invulnerable.png\" alt=\"A panel showing Superman's costume is invulnerable from Superman #43, Sept 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-suit-invulnerable.png 562w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-suit-invulnerable-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><figcaption>A panel showing Superman&#8217;s costume is invulnerable from Superman #43, Sept 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And that he can fly so fast around an explosion that he can contain it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/super-explosion-containment.png\" alt=\"A panel showing Superman containing an explosion from Superman #43, Sept 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/super-explosion-containment.png 572w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/super-explosion-containment-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><figcaption>A panel showing Superman containing an explosion from Superman #43, Sept 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Superman #43 (September 1946), Superman faces off against Luthor again. This time Luthor has invented a super-hard material he calls Luthorite. The story lets writers enumerate new powers and abilities, as well as a weakness. He may have photographic memory, but it is revealed that Superman cannot see through lead with his x-ray vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,14,329,355,43,97],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-341","tag-dc","tag-super-powers","tag-super-suit","tag-superman","tag-xray-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}