{"id":3547,"date":"2022-01-11T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:07:13","slug":"637-krypton-meets-superboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/637-krypton-meets-superboy\/","title":{"rendered":"637 – Krypton Meets Superboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"A<\/a>
A panel from Adventure Comics #232, Nov 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Early one morning in Adventure Comics #232 (Nov 1956) – with a solid WHAMMMP! – another intact Kryptonian city<\/a> lands on Earth, this time right next to Smallville…. \u0ca0_\u0ca0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Another<\/a>
Another panel from Adventure Comics #232, Nov 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In terms of lazy writing, this one might just take the cake. The Kryptonian city chunk happens to contain the very house where Kal-el was born, but unfortunately Superboy can’t go explore it because it the city chunk is made up of pure Kryptonite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Yet<\/a>
Yet another panel from Adventure Comics #232, Nov 1956 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, Superboy finds a note which Jor-El left his son, asking him to perform three tasks to honor Krypton’s memory. After building a park and saving a planet he fails to find a way to perform the third task: reading and studying all of Krypton’s works. He later discovers the Kryptonian city has a protective coating over its Kryptonite . When he sits in the childhood home and cries, Jor-El’s tape activates…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"And<\/a>
And yet another panel from Adventure Comics #232, Nov 1956 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately Clark is able to learn about Krypton’s legacy from Jor-El’s film tapes. Unfortunately, the protective coating starts to wear off, so Superboy figures out a way to literally<\/em> fling the city back into space… \u0ca0_\u0ca0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early one morning in Adventure Comics #232 (Nov 1956) – with a solid WHAMMMP! – another intact Kryptonian city lands on Earth, this time right next to Smallville…. \u0ca0_\u0ca0 In terms of lazy writing, this one might just take the cake. The Kryptonian city chunk happens to contain the very house where Kal-el was born, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,14,305,306,405,222,519,304],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-578","tag-dc","tag-jor-el","tag-krypton","tag-lazy-writing","tag-smallville","tag-super-coincidence","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","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=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}