{"id":4260,"date":"2022-07-19T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2022-07-28T23:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T06:07:03","slug":"772-flame-dragon-from-krypton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/772-flame-dragon-from-krypton\/","title":{"rendered":"772 &#8211; Flame-Dragon from Krypton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-1-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Superman #142, November 1960\" class=\"wp-image-4263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-1-1.png 554w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-1-1-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">A panel from Superman #142, November 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Superman #142 (Nov 1960), Superman encounters a &#8220;flame-dragon from Krypton&#8221;. The beast appears and breathes fire at Clark, incinerating his clothes in front of Lois. It&#8217;s mostly a cutesy-but-tired-and-unrealistic story about how Superman manages to yet again disprove her &#8220;Clark-is-Superman&#8221; theory (with the help of Batman and Supergirl this time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Superman wraps up the dragon in a ball of ice and flings him into orbit around Pluto so that he can return in later stories. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/512-beast-from-krypton\/\">I mentioned before<\/a>, I do have an affection for the &#8220;flame-dragon from Krypton&#8221;, since a later story with it appeared in a compilation paperback novel I had as a kid \ud83d\ude42<\/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\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Superman #142, November 1960\" class=\"wp-image-4262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-2.png 556w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-flame-beast-of-krypton-2-300x262.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Superman #142, November 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Known surviving Kryptonians: 1,000,009<\/em> (including a dog, a monkey, and now a flame-dragon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Superman #142 (Nov 1960), Superman encounters a &#8220;flame-dragon from Krypton&#8221;. The beast appears and breathes fire at Clark, incinerating his clothes in front of Lois. It&#8217;s mostly a cutesy-but-tired-and-unrealistic story about how Superman manages to yet again disprove her &#8220;Clark-is-Superman&#8221; theory (with the help of Batman and Supergirl this time). Superman wraps up the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654,40,14,601,11,733,235,519,457,43],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-654","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-kryptonian-population","tag-lois-lane","tag-nostalgia","tag-secret-identity","tag-super-coincidence","tag-supergirl","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","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=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}