{"id":2505,"date":"2020-06-26T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:24:33","slug":"419-fortress-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/419-fortress-of-solitude\/","title":{"rendered":"419 &#8211; Fortress of Solitude!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fortress-of-solitude.png\" alt=\"A panel depicting the Fortress of Solitude from Superman #58, March 1949\" class=\"wp-image-2506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fortress-of-solitude.png 670w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fortress-of-solitude-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption>A panel depicting the Fortress of Solitude from Superman #58, March 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/194-super-nesting\/\">Superman had built his &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; back in 1942<\/a>, it was more or less a one-off story that was never explored.  Superman #58 (March 1949) firmly establishes that Superman has a &#8220;fortress of solitude&#8221; and it is in the &#8220;polar wastes&#8221;.  Interestingly it looks a lot like an artist&#8217;s depiction of an older European town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this story, a parallel to Superman&#8217;s own origin, an Earth scientist trapped on a doomed volcanic island, had sent his only son off in a rocket which landed on the planet Uuz.  The planet has weaker gravity than Earth&#8217;s, which allows the Earthling to become a champion for the planet, dubbing himself Regor (wtf?!?).  Anyway, Superman discovers this &#8220;second Superman&#8221; is in trouble and is able to train him to overcome his deficiencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Superman had built his &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; back in 1942, it was more or less a one-off story that was never explored. Superman #58 (March 1949) firmly establishes that Superman has a &#8220;fortress of solitude&#8221; and it is in the &#8220;polar wastes&#8221;. Interestingly it looks a lot like an artist&#8217;s depiction of an older European town. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,14,180,337,43],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-dc","tag-fortress-of-solitude","tag-origin","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","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=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}