#Kandor

[nitpickrider]

Listen, I'm all for restorative justice But you can see why they're skeptical about the rehabilitation of the guy who BLEW UP THE MOON Action Comics 310

#dc #dcu #dc comics #dc universe #superhero #comics #superman #clark kent #jax ur #kandor #phantom zone

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Action Comics 1064 (2024) variant by Jorge Jimenez

#House of Brainiac #Superman #Krypto #Kandor #Jorge Jimenez

[browsethestacks]

Action Comics #1065 Cover (2024)

Art by Paolo Rivera

#Comics #DC Comics #Action Comics #Paolo Rivera #Superman #Brainiac #Art #Original Art #Before And After #DC #Science Fiction #Kandor #2024 #2020s #20s

[nitewrighter]

Jimmy: Can I take a photo of your little model city in the jar here?

Clark: That’s, um, that’s not a model, and you can, but just don’t—

*Jimmy’s camera flashes*

Clark: …take it with the flash.

*tiny screaming heard from Kandor*

#superman #jimmy olsen #JIMMY ITS LIKE A FISHTANK #dc #kandor

[cantsayidont]

September 1983. Although not credited in the digest on whose cover this version was published (BEST OF DC #40, SUPERMAN: THE FABULOUS WORLD OF KRYPTON), this map of Krypton was drawn by Albert de Guzman and originally appeared in THE KRYPTON CHRONICLES #2 (October 1981). Many of the locales shown on the map had appeared in previous Superman stories, in particular the Scarlet Jungle.

A different map of Krypton, drawn by Howard Bender and Joe DelBeato, appeared in the Krypton entry in WHO'S WHO about three years later:

This version of the map is broadly similar to the De Guzman map above, although the captions for Kandor and Argo City seem to have been transposed: The vignette identified as Kandor appears to be Argo City — Argo had an environmental dome (which is how it survived the destruction of Krypton), while Kandor did not — and the vignette identified as Argo City looks a lot more like Kandor. My guess that someone switched the captions during production, seeing the dome over Argo and mistakenly assuming someone had mislabeled Kandor (which of course is best known as the Bottle City of Kandor).

#comics #best of dc blue ribbon digest #the fabulous world of krypton #albert de guzman #maps #krypton #kandor #kryptonopolis #argo city #superman #i love these maps of imaginary places #who's who also has maps of thanagar and rann #there was a more detailed map of rann in amazing world of dc comics in the '70s #which unfortunately is rife with errors #when compared to the stories it references

[mysteryonearth52]

Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor 1 (2023) by Mark Waid & Bryan Hitch

Cover: Bryan Hitch

#Superman #Lex Luthor #Kandor #Mark Waid #Bryan Hitch

[story-weavr]

What if: Visiting Kandor

Whenever Superman visits Kandor, it is both something to look forward to and something to dread.

He gets to enjoy being with his Kryptonian family and being a normal if somewhat celebrity life.

He loves spending time with wise yet kind Uncle Zor-El, his austere Aunt Alura, and their playful, loving daughters.

He admires and respects his cousins Don-El & Van-Zee.

And he enjoys spending time with various individuals, both within and outside of the House.

However

The adults of the inner circle of the House of El always had a meeting.

And the final agenda of the meeting,

Every. Single. Time.

The threat of one Lex Luthor.

Kal-El has to convince his House NOT to interfere with his dispute with Luthor.

Every time!

His uncle, the Head of Kandor’s ruling council & Elder of the House of El, voices his concerns.

His cousin Van-Zee hints in a way only Kal understands that he could help as Nightwing.

Son-Zod, a foster child of Zor-El and Alura (think JL: Gods and Monsters), insinuates having him assassinated.

Don-El, head of Kandor’s police force, is actually in favor of this as he doubts the Phantom Zone could hold someone as dangerous as Luthor.

Kal-El frequently has to voice he has it handled, Luthor doesn’t know about Kandor, it’s safer for Kandor to remain hidden, he’s careful with his disguise, his suit has some resistance against Kryptonite, no he will not wear a War Suit as it will scare the general population, NO he will not disgrace the House of El be condoning an assassination!

“Lex Luthor is the father of MY child, & therefore MY responsibility!”

That is usually what ends the debate.

And what usually follows is Don-El, the head of the House of El, informing his younger cousin that if Luthor becomes an active threat to Kandor’s people, he WILL act.

The only one Kal-El can comfortably talk about this issue with is Val-Zod, another foster child of Zor & Alura.

#my work #story ideas #superman #lex luthor #conner kent #please write this #please writers #clark kent #clex #mpreg #House of El #don el #van zee #zor el #alura in ze #kara zor el #kandor #kryptonian #val zod #gods and monsters #justice league #amnesia #story prompt

[chernobog13]

Superman with the bottle city of Kandor by Rags Morales.

#Superman #Kandor #Fortress of Solitude #DC Comics #Rags Morales

[nekochan4eva]

Idea 💡 ✍️:

What if Superman was severely injured after Doomsday (or other event) and had to be taken to Kandor for emergency healing?

Thing is, because of the extent of his injuries and the limited resources that need to be prioritized, he had to stay in Kandor for the foreseeable future.

Luthor, impatient as hell, sets out to find Superman. He’s used connections, hacking, blackmail, & he still can’t find the blasted alien. He finally turns to magic and gets a lead.

He finally found out about Kandor and spies on it. Luthor finds Superman basically acting like if Clark had actually lived on Kandor. He sees Kal undergoing painful basic treatments that are used to teach medical students because Kal wanted to make sure the more advanced tech was ready to be used in case of an emergency (think severe scarring on a majority of his body).

In the meantime, he spends his time learning of Krypton (at times struggling with a culture he was born into but not raised in) and teaching about Earth (he speaks so fondly of it), he has to deal with a very flirty former Phantom Zone prisoner on parole: Jax-Ur, the Kryptonian equivalent of Lex Luthor.

A (not smitten by Superman’s human side that loves both of his homes and peoples and most certainly NOT jealous of the suave genius courting Superman) Lex Luthor assembled a team that successfully breaks into Kandor and sneaks under the radar.

Unfortunately, he did not account for the Kryptonian version of Batman & Robin: Nightwing & Flamebird. Two people whose identities allow them to know EXACTLY who Lex luthor is and what he’s done to Kal.

Suffice to say, members of the House of El, whether or not they bare that name, have a LOW opinion of Lex Luthor. Especially Don-El, who is the Head of the Kryptonian Police.

How will Lex Luthor manage to avoid the scrutiny of those belonging to an advanced culture to claim his prize?

#Clex #clark kent #kal el #lex luthor #superman #Don El #nightwing #flamebird #fanfic ideas #fanfic #Kandor #my work #story idea #please write this #please writers

[archiveofaffinities]

Mike Kelley, City 000, 2010

#Mike Kelley #art #design #installation #museum #sculpture #model #stair #superman #Kandor #city #city 000

[gaykarstaagforever]

1963

THRILL as a bunch of men yell at Superman! LOOK at their Kryptonian clown costumes!

This is in Kandor, the Bottle City, the origin of which I've heard like 6 different versions of and can't be asked to sort them out.

In this comic I think it's the one where Brainiac shrunk them. Some evil scientist tells the Kandor clowns that they can be big again but Superman won't let them because he knows they will all be able to beat him up. The reality is that if they are enlarged they will all melt, which is probably a metaphor for something.

Doesn't matter. This story is only notable because Superman and Jimmy Olsen shrink down and visit Kandor in their Kandoran secret identities, Nightwing and Flamebird.

Apparently they were going to just go as Batman and Robin, but Krypton doesn't have bats or robins, so they didn't want it to be confusing...?

Look. Someone at DC drew two cool new superheroes named Nightwing and Flamebird and was told no and managed to get away with this.

Later on at some point another cousin of Superman's in Kandor becomes an actual Nightwing there, with a Flamebird sidekick.

The weird thing is that the Dick Grayson Nightwing directly descends from this, in that he gets the idea for Nightwing from Superman telling him about the Kandoran Nightwing. I don't know if he just told him the thing about his cousin, or if he explained that THAT only happened because he did this pointless OC-legally-distinct-from-Batman cosplay one time he went there.

...Did Bruce ever find out about this? Because that seems like a weird thing to find out, that Superman and Jimmy Olsen pretended to be KO versions of you and your sidekick, with rocket belts, in a tiny city.

I suppose when you've lived through the DCU Silver Age, your sense of weird is probably pretty abstract.

Especially when this is still what your super-secret superhero hideout looks like:

That damn penny. Let it go already, Bruce.

...He can keep the robot dinosaur that defends the cave. That's just practical. Alfred isn't always free to go down there with his shotgun.

#silver age comics #superman #batman #dc comics #comic book cover #kandor #nightwing #robin #dick grayson

[nitpickrider]

So...your plan. To prove yourself worthy of a community theater role Was to take the roles in a ghoulish pantomime of Superman's dead parents? Did I get that right? Action Comics 299

#dc #dcu #dc comics #dc universe #superhero #comics #kandor #ma kent #pa kent #martha kent #jonathan kent

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Supergirl #2

#supergirl #the best comic book panels #kandor #dc comics

[doomed-jester]

I think it would be really funny if Brainiac bottled Metropolis, rotated in 45%, then put it back. And just left.

#brainiac #dc #dc comics #superman #metropolis #vril dox #kandor

[earth-ai]

The Kryptonian city of Kandor was miniaturized and placed in a bottle by Brainiac so that he could continue to study Kryptonian society without staying on Krypton. The curiosity of his 12th level intellect exceeds its sense of ethics. 

It was a fortuitous event for the city. It avoided the destruction of Krypton. It saved 3 million lives. Superman happened upon Kandor onboard Brainiac’s space vessel when he was temporarily held captive. 

Superman keeps Kandor in his Fortress of Solitude, safe from prying eyes. He has vowed to find a way to restore its inhabitants to normal size. From time-to-time he uses a prototype of an enlarging device to enlarge one of Kandor’s inhabitants, but the effect always wears off. He has occasionally shrunk himself to visit the city, sometimes he has brought others.

The existence of Kandor is secret. Not even the Justice League is aware it exists.

#kandor #world of krypton #superman #brainiac #dc multiverse #dc universe #earth ai

[cantsayidont]

March 1984. In SUPERGIRL #17, Kara Zor-El made one of her most-maligned fashion choices: adding a red headband to her Supergirl costume. Paul Kupperberg, the writer of this series, has since admitted that he introduced the headband only under duress, at the insistence of the producers of the 1984 SUPERGIRL movie (who then decided not to add it to Helen Slater's costume anyway). However, the headband ended up becoming an interesting addition to the series, which contains some of the most notable examples of the Jewish coding of Supergirl.

To be clear, these stories don't assert that Kara is Jewish, but as Linda Danvers, she lives in a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago; her landlady Ida Berkowitz is a Shoah survivor; and just three issues earlier, Supergirl had helped to save the Torah of a nearby synagogue when it was almost burned down by antisemitic arsonists. Moreover, as Kara explains in SUPERGIRL #18, in adopting the headband, she has chosen to adapt a venerable Kryptonian cultural tradition traditionally associated with Kryptonian men, in a way that suggests a clear parallel with the practice of wearing a kippah (yarmulke):

As Kupperberg may have recalled, the cultural origins of the Kryptonian headbands had previously been described in a "Fabulous World of Krypton" story in SUPERMAN #264 about a decade earlier (a story by Elliot S! Maggin and Dave Cockrum that's even more strongly Jewish-coded than this one), but the comics had shown Kryptonian men wearing headbands since the late 1940s, so this was well-established Superman lore.

In context, then, the headband becomes less a fashion fad than another expression of the Jewish themes of the 1980s SUPERGIRL series and the Jewish coding of pre-Crisis Kryptonians more broadly. A particularly noteworthy point in this regard is the way Supergirl frames her decision to wear the headband as part of a living, evolving Kryptonian culture, which may be practiced in different ways throughout the diaspora of survivors of Krypton (who in this era included not only Superman and Supergirl, but also the former residents of the Bottle City of Kandor, the prisoners in the Phantom Zone, Supergirl's Kryptonian parents, and a number of others).

(Also, if you just want to focus on Kryptonian fashion faux pas, this outfit — with or without headband — was a vast improvement over Supergirl's previous costume, the one with the red choker and hot pants.)

#comics #supergirl #paul kupperberg #carmine infantino #bob oksner #linda lee danvers #pre crisis #kryptonian disaspora #antisemitism #kara zor el #kandor #josé luis garcía lópez #dick giordano