{"id":3922,"date":"2022-04-18T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2022-01-07T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:59:19","slug":"706-what-if-krypton-had-not-exploded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/706-what-if-krypton-had-not-exploded\/","title":{"rendered":"706 – What if… Krypton Had Not Exploded?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Superman #132, August 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In “Superman’s Other Life”, a story in Superman #132 (August 1959), Batman and Robin bringing a special gift for Superman to the Fortress of Solitude. The Dynamic Duo bring Superman pictures he took from Krypton years ago and suggests he put them through his “Super-Univac” to see if it can answer the question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What would Superman’s other life have been, if Krypton had not exploded?”<\/p>– Question put to Super-Univac by Batman, Robin, and Superman.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Which is, of course, just an excuse to tell an imaginary “What If…?” tale. In it, we see Jor-El redirecting Kal-El’s rocket back to Krypton after it does not explode. It shows Kal-El skinning his knee (ooo!<\/em>), getting his hair cut (ahh!<\/em>), gaining a younger brother Zal-El (aww!<\/em>) and the playing with Krypto the pup and a robot (yawn!<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of other kooky things happen though. Teenage Kal-El wants to join the Space Patrol when he’s older. He befriends Professor Xan-Du who accidentally is exposed to a weird ray from one of his inventions and becomes the planet’s super-hero as “Future Man”. When Kal-El joins the Space Patrol it turns out their uniforms are exact duplicates of Superman’s uniform (oh the delicious, Alanis-infused irony!<\/em>). A spaceship from Earth destined for the Moon accidentally makes its way to Krypton and it happens to have a stow-away, none other than Lois Lane (wtf?!?<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Kal-El tries to save his parents and brother after they crash into a magnetic asteroid and becomes an orphan (ouch!<\/em>). Lois falls in love with Future-Man, so he decides to emigrate to Earth and leave Krypton (really?!?<\/em>). He leaves Kal-El in charge as the new super-hero after bestowing on him one final charge from the machine (no, but really?!?<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, it’s a cute story, but there are lots better “imaginary stories” to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In “Superman’s Other Life”, a story in Superman #132 (August 1959), Batman and Robin bringing a special gift for Superman to the Fortress of Solitude. The Dynamic Duo bring Superman pictures he took from Krypton years ago and suggests he put them through his “Super-Univac” to see if it can answer the question: “What would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613,40,14,566,306,11,145,519,43,537],"class_list":["post-3922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-613","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-krypto","tag-krypton","tag-lois-lane","tag-robin","tag-super-coincidence","tag-superman","tag-what-if"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922","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=3922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}