{"id":3767,"date":"2022-03-03T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T19:54:05","slug":"674-red-kryptonite-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/674-red-kryptonite-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"674 &#8211; Red Kryptonite Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-superboy-clark-split.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-superboy-clark-split.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #255, October 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-superboy-clark-split.png 564w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-superboy-clark-split-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #255, October 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Red kryptonite returns in Adventure Comics #255 (October 1958). Maybe the writers forgot or ignored the &#8220;red kryptonite is 10 times as powerful as green kryptonite&#8221; story from a few months and wanted to tell a different story. This time a &#8220;Martian&#8221; brings a fragment of red kryptonite to Earth and it splits Superboy into two beings: his super-powered self and an evil powerless version of Clark Kent, leading to a battle where Superboy is attacked by his super-robots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-clark-vs-superboy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-clark-vs-superboy.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-clark-vs-superboy.png 604w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195810-clark-vs-superboy-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Adventure Comics #255, October 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately the over-use of the &#8220;multiple switch&#8221; ends up causing an explosion that destroys &#8220;evil Clark&#8221;. This second effect of red kryptonite eventually leads to the easy route for writers to tell wacky one-off stories of Superman\/Superboy transforming in weird ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red kryptonite returns in Adventure Comics #255 (October 1958). Maybe the writers forgot or ignored the &#8220;red kryptonite is 10 times as powerful as green kryptonite&#8221; story from a few months and wanted to tell a different story. This time a &#8220;Martian&#8221; brings a fragment of red kryptonite to Earth and it splits Superboy into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[598,149,14,405,604,304],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-598","tag-clark-kent","tag-dc","tag-lazy-writing","tag-red-kryptonite","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}