{"id":4864,"date":"2025-03-05T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:21:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:21:43","slug":"861-the-krypto-kid-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/861-the-krypto-kid-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"861 – The Krypto Kid Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kryptonite Kid returns in Superboy #99, July 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

It’s been a couple years since we saw the Kryptonite Kid<\/a>, that menace from another world who’s evil for apparently no other reason that he enjoys it. In Superboy #99 (July 1962), he returns, and I guess “Kid Mxyzptlk” is not paying attention, because this time Superboy needs to be saved by Pete Ross – who now knows Superboy’s secret identity<\/a>. The K-Kid then offers to kill Krypto instead of Superboy – to which Superboy agrees, promising to deliver his poor dog for certain doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kryptonite Kid tries to strand Krypto on a kryptonite-infested world, the dog plays dead, then jumps up and knocks the Kryptonite Kid’s spaceship into a red dust cloud in space. Suddenly the Kryptonite Kid is no longer green, but red – and has no compulsion to be evil.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Kryptonite Kid is good and red in Superboy #99, July 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The now-good natured Kryptonite Kid good-naturedly asks how Krypto was able to survive his attack, to which Superboy splits an invulnerable hair and says he never promised to deliver the real<\/em><\/strong> Krypto. He had delivered a Krypto-robot. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Superboy lying that he didn’t lie in Superboy #99, July 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Ok, villain defeated and apparently turned into a good guy? Have we seen actual villain recidivism<\/a> again? No, of course not. Red kryptonite effects are only temporary, you silly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Kryptonite Kid will return to menace Superboy, from Superboy #99, July 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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