{"id":3617,"date":"2022-01-31T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:20:43","slug":"651-the-krypton-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/651-the-krypton-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"651 &#8211; The Krypton Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195709-krypton-kid.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195709-krypton-kid.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #242, Sept 1957\" class=\"wp-image-3618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195709-krypton-kid.png 628w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195709-krypton-kid-300x274.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #242, Sept 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Adventure Comics #242 (Sept 1957), Superboy meets another lad from Krypton, Zar-Al the Krypton Kid. His father also believed Krypton would be destroyed so he sent his son in a Time Ship to Earth to find Zeelium, an element that would stabilize Krypton&#8217;s core. The Krypton Kid meets up with Superboy, but they find no Zeelium on Earth (it&#8217;s not clear why they didn&#8217;t proceed to scour the universe for Zeelium).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Superboy convinces the Krypton Kid to stay on Earth despite not finding any Zeelium, they have a couple nice adventures together. Ultimately the two super-lads try to sacrifice their own future for the other and the Krypton Kid wins out, traveling back in time and space to Krypton to perish with his father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Adventure Comics #242 (Sept 1957), Superboy meets another lad from Krypton, Zar-Al the Krypton Kid. His father also believed Krypton would be destroyed so he sent his son in a Time Ship to Earth to find Zeelium, an element that would stabilize Krypton&#8217;s core. The Krypton Kid meets up with Superboy, but they find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[593,14,306,461,304],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-593","tag-dc","tag-krypton","tag-kryptonians","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","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=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}