{"id":2976,"date":"2020-11-24T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:04:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T03:04:44","slug":"523-supermans-big-bro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/523-supermans-big-bro\/","title":{"rendered":"523 &#8211; Superman&#8217;s Big Bro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/superman-big-bro-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Superman #80, November 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/superman-big-bro-1.png 698w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/superman-big-bro-1-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A panel from Superman #80, November 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing the tradition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2928\">Jor-El super-coincidences<\/a> in which Jor-El was involved with nearly every entity that Superman meets from space&#8230; In Superman #80 (November 1952), Superman discovers an alien has crash-landed on Earth and carries with him instructions from Jor-El mentioning his son. Superman assumes this means &#8220;Halk-Kar&#8221; is Superman&#8217;s older brother. Of course Halk has amnesia so assumes Superman is correct, though it is odd that Halk&#8217;s superpowers are weaker than Superman&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/superman-big-bro-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Superman #80, November 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/superman-big-bro-2.png 686w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/superman-big-bro-2-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Another panel from Superman #80, November 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hm, turns out that an electrical jolt awakens Halk&#8217;s memories and we learn that he is from Thoron, in the same solar system as Krypton.  Jor-El had given instructions to Halk on how to reach Earth that he no longer needed (he had memorized them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halk-Kar rockets off into space, bidding farewell to Superman, and both the characters hope they will meet again one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the tradition of Jor-El super-coincidences in which Jor-El was involved with nearly every entity that Superman meets from space&#8230; In Superman #80 (November 1952), Superman discovers an alien has crash-landed on Earth and carries with him instructions from Jor-El mentioning his son. Superman assumes this means &#8220;Halk-Kar&#8221; is Superman&#8217;s older brother. Of course Halk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,303,14,305,306,519,43],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-amnesia","tag-dc","tag-jor-el","tag-krypton","tag-super-coincidence","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","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=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}