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Carlyle Allerton

2005-03-14T01:46:05Z

Admiral Chew:

An alias employed by [[Lex Luthor]] in July-August 1942 when he poses as a "prominent authority on ancient stones and their mystic powers" as part of his scheme to obtain the "powerstone" (S No. 17/4: "When Titans Clash!").

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Jack Allen

2005-03-14T01:40:38Z

Admiral Chew:

The wily press agent for Miracle Movies who concocts an elaborate scheme designed to trick [[Superman]] into starring in an adventure film in the far north without realizing that he is being filmed. The situation becomes more complicated when "notorious racketeer" "Bushy" Barnes and his henchmen kidnap Allen's film crew and hold them for ransom, but Superman finally apprehends the gangsters and permits the release of Allen's adventure film, entitled ''Superman in Valhalla'', on the condition that half its proceeds be earmarked for charity (S No. 52/3, May/Jun 1948: "Superman in Valhalla!").

[[category: Entries|Allen, Jack]]
[[category: People|Allen, Jack]]

The Anti-Superman Gang

2005-03-13T21:15:18Z

Admiral Chew:

The name used to designate a single gang of criminals, or, more likely, several independent gangs, which match wits with [[Superman]] in the early 1960â€™s.

In February 1960, after Superman has transported his [[Fortress of Solitude]] from its location in the Arctic to a site somewhere â€œon the outskirts of Metropolisâ€ and has begun conduction guided tours through it for the benefit of charity, two members of the Anti-Superman Gang, posing as innocent tourists, enter the Fortress along with a crowd of sightseers and leave behind a diabolical chemical concoction formulated to emit â€œa deadly gasâ€ which, in an hourâ€™s time, will â€œerupt into an atomic blastâ€ and blow the Fortress of Solitude to kingdom come. The scheme is thwarted, however, by a pair of scientists in the bottle city of [[Kandor]], who witness the planting of the atomic explosive on their Kandorian monitor screen and relay the news to Superman by means of a special â€œsuper-sonic signal,â€ thus enabling the Man of Steel to dispose of the deadly explosive--and apprehend the Anti-Superman Gang--before any harm can come either to the Fortress itself or to the city of Kandor, which rests on a niche inside the Fortress (Act No. 261: â€œSupermanâ€™s Fortress of Solitude!â€).

In May 1961 Superman thwarts an elaborate scheme by respected â€œmillionaire philanthropistâ€ [[John Kiley]], the secret leader of the Anti-Superman Gang, to unravel the secret of his dual identity (Act No. 276: â€œThe War Between Supergirl and the Superman Emergency Squad!â€). During this same period, three members of the Anti-Superman Gang attempt to murder science-fiction writer Rock Stirling with [[kryptonite]] in the mistaken belief that Stirling is secretly Superman, but they are quickly apprehended by Superman with some timely help from writer Stirling (S No. 145/1, May 1961: â€œThe Secret Identity of Superman!â€). (â€˜â€™Seeâ€™â€™ [[Jimmy Olsen]].)

In April 1962, at a charity rally for the Greater Metropolis Fund, Superman is presented with a â€œspecial medallionâ€ in the form of a giant-sized pocket watch--emblazed with the slogan â€œTime to Giveâ€--and agrees to wear the medallion around his neck to help publicize the charity drive, unaware that two members of the Anti-Superman Gang, who have been paid $1,000,000 to assassintate Superman, have surreptitiously replaced the real medallion with on containing a tiny television transmitter in hopes of unearthing a clue to the secret of Supermanâ€™s dual identity. The criminals ultimately discover that Superman is secretly Clark Kent and attempt to murder Kent with kryptonite, but the Man of Steel foils the attempt on his life; tricks the villains, through an elaborate ruse, into believing they have erred in identifying Clark Kent with superman; and arranges for their capture by the [[Metropolis]] police (S No. 152/33: â€œThe TV Trap for Superman!â€).

Appearances:

SPJO No. 39, September 1959

Act No. 261, February 1960

SGLL No. 21, November 1960

S No. 145, May 1961: "The Secret Identity of Superman!"

Act No. 276, May 1961: "The War Between Supergirl and the Supermen Emergency Squad!"

S No. 152, April 1962: "The TV Trap For Superman!"

SPJO No. 75, March 1964

SPJO No. 85, June 1965

SGLL No. 60, October 1965

SPJO No. 88, October 1965
SGLL No. 69, October 1966

Act No. 376, May 1969: "The Only Way to Kill Superman!"

ACt No. 377, June 1969

S No. 228, July 1970: "Execution Planet!"

S No. 240, July 1971: "To Save a Superman"

S No. 241, August 1971

[[category: Entries|Anti-Superman Gang]]
[[category: Organizations|Anti-Superman Gang]]
[[category: Villains|Anti-Superman Gang]]

The Anti-Superman Gang

2005-03-13T21:13:37Z

Admiral Chew:

The name used to designate a single gang of criminals, or, more likely, several independent gangs, which match wits with [[Superman]] in the early 1960â€™s.

In February 1960, after Superman has transported his [[Fortress of Solitude]] from its location in the Arctic to a site somewhere â€œon the outskirts of Metropolisâ€ and has begun conduction guided tours through it for the benefit of charity, two members of the Anti-Superman Gang, posing as innocent tourists, enter the Fortress along with a crowd of sightseers and leave behind a diabolical chemical concoction formulated to emit â€œa deadly gasâ€ which, in an hourâ€™s time, will â€œerupt into an atomic blastâ€ and blow the Fortress of Solitude to kingdom come. The scheme is thwarted, however, by a pair of scientists in the bottle city of [[Kandor]], who witness the planting of the atomic explosive on their Kandorian monitor screen and relay the news to Superman by means of a special â€œsuper-sonic signal,â€ thus enabling the Man of Steel to dispose of the deadly explosive--and apprehend the Anti-Superman Gang--before any harm can come either to the Fortress itself or to the city of Kandor, which rests on a niche inside the Fortress (Act No. 261: â€œSupermanâ€™s Fortress of Solitude!â€).

In May 1961 Superman thwarts an elaborate scheme by respected â€œmillionaire philanthropistâ€ [[John Kiley]], the secret leader of the Anti-Superman Gang, to unravel the secret of his dual identity (Act No. 276: â€œThe War Between Supergirl and the Superman Emergency Squad!â€). During this same period, three members of the Anti-Superman Gang attempt to murder science-fiction writer Rock Stirling with [[kryptonite]] in the mistaken belief that Stirling is secretly Superman, but they are quickly apprehended by Superman with some timely help from writer Stirling (S No. 145/1, May 1961: â€œThe Secret Identity of Superman!â€). (â€˜â€™Seeâ€™â€™ [[Jimmy Olsen]].)

In April 1962, at a charity rally for the Greater Metropolis Fund, Superman is presented with a â€œspecial medallionâ€ in the form of a giant-sized pocket watch--emblazed with the slogan â€œTime to Giveâ€--and agrees to wear the medallion around his neck to help publicize the charity drive, unaware that two members of the Anti-Superman Gang, who have been paid $1,000,000 to assassintate Superman, have surreptitiously replaced the real medallion with on containing a tiny television transmitter in hopes of unearthing a clue to the secret of Supermanâ€™s dual identity. The criminals ultimately discover that Superman is secretly Clark Kent and attempt to murder Kent with kryptonite, but the Man of Steel foils the attempt on his life; tricks the villains, through an elaborate ruse, into believing they have erred in identifying Clark Kent with superman; and arranges for their capture by the [[Metropolis]] police (S No. 152/33: â€œThe TV Trap for Superman!â€).

Appearances:

SPJO No. 39, September 1959

Act No. 261, February 1960

SGLL No. 21, November 1960

S No. 145, May 1961: "The Secret Identity of Superman!"

Act No. 276, May 1961: "The War Between Supergirl and the Supermen Emergency Squad!"

S No. 152, April 1962: "The TV Trap For Superman!"

SPJO No. 75, March 1964

SPJO No. 85, June 1965

SGLL No. 60, October 1965

SPJO No. 88, October 1965
SGLL No. 69, October 1966

Act No. 376, May 1969: "The Only Way to Kill Superman!"

ACt No. 377, June 1969

S No. 228, July 1970: "Execution Planet!"

S No. 240, July 1971: "To Save a Superman"

S No. 241, August 1971

[[category: Entries| Anti-Superman Gang]]
[[category: Organizations| Anti-Superman Gang]]
[[category: Villains| Anti-Superman Gang]]

Category talk:People

2005-03-13T14:09:37Z

Admiral Chew:

I think we should only put Human Beings in this category.
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If so I recommend the category be changed to "human" or "earthling" or even "terran" because people doesn't really suggest "from earth". I'm sure the phrase "people of Krpyton" appears in the chronicals.
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When need a concensus on what "People" means. When I uses it for non-humans Superman Monkey takes it out. When I don't uses it for non-humans Telle put's it in. This is not a complaint. I don't care one way or the other but I do think it needs to be worked out so we aren't working against each other.

Phantom Stranger

2005-03-13T14:04:58Z

Admiral Chew: thanks for spelling corrections but title uses US "judgment" not Britich "judgement"

A mysterious and extremely powerful individual, always clad in a dark blue suit with matching cape and hat, and wearing a gold medallion on a chain aorund his neck. His origin is shrouded in mystery and the source of his powers and his motivation are unknown. He has assisted [[Superman]], the [[Justice League of America]], and other heroes on numerous occasions.

In February 1980, the Phantom Stranger mysteriously intervenes in Superman's battle with [[Dracula]] and causes both Dracula and his servant Frankenstein's Monster to be whisked away to a place he describes only as "nightmare" (S No.344: "The Monsters Among Us!").

Later that year in September the Phantom Stranger again meets Superman when Superman is experiencing painful attacks brought on by the magic of Madame Benita who is working on behalf of [[Pete Ross]], Superman's childhood friend, to torture Superman. Ross, who has long known and protected Superman's secret identity, had turned against the Man of Steel when he refused to bring Ross's son, Jon, back from the planet Nyrvn. Superman had refused to rescue Jon because the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] had told him that Jon was destined to one day lead an alien starfleet and save the earth, and that returning Jon to earth would doom the entire planet.

When the Phantom Stranger confronts Madame Benita he becomes locked in a spiritual battle with the demonic [[Tala]], who has been using Benita, Pete, and another man who stole tokens from the [[Superman Museum]] for Benita's spells in her plot to trap Superman's soul. For their deeds Tala believes that she already has the souls of Benita and the thief and soon she will have Pete Ross's soul, and Superman, who is vulnerable to her magic because of his guilt over failing Jon and Pete, will soon be her as well.

But while the Phantom Stranger and Tala engage in their primal battle, Superman has a change of heart and goes to Nyrvn to retreive Jon, saying to Jon, "Maybe you'll come '''back''' to Nyrvn '''someday''', to become that '''great hero''' the Legionnaires say you're destined to be." Once Jon is reunited with his father, Tala's "hold on Superman is broken--and with it [her] hold over" the others as well.

Tala then vanishes, leaving the Phantom Stranger this parting threat:
It is your '''doom''' to place yourself between me
and these poor, pitiable mortal fools, and one day
they shall '''disappoint''' you and on that day you are
'''mine'''!
The Phantom Strange calmy responds, "No Queen of Darkness that day shall '''never dawn'''" (DCCP No.25: "Judgment Night").

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Allura

2005-03-13T05:07:37Z

Admiral Chew:

#REDIRECT [[Alura]]

Allura

2005-03-13T05:07:08Z

Admiral Chew:

see [[Alura]]

The Alchemist

2005-03-13T04:58:05Z

Admiral Chew: Non-canonical source but taken directly from TGSB

An alias employed by [[Superman]] in June 1961 when, in collaboration with [[Batman]], he poses as the inventor of a magic elixir guaranteed to protect anyone who drinks it from bodily harm as part of an elaborate plan to persuade four gangland assassins, hired by the underworld to destroy Batman, that their efforts to murder Batman must inevitably end in failure since Batman has already drunk the magic elixir. Although the plan goes somewhat awry when one of the assassins discovers the Alchemist's true identity, Batman and Superman nevertheless succeed in apprehending the four assassins and in thwarting their attempts on Batmanâ€™s life (BM No. 140/2: "The Charmed Life of Batman!")

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Akthar

2005-03-13T04:43:52Z

Admiral Chew:

The "evil advisor" to the good King Saffro--the ruler of an undersea kingdom located far beneath the surface of the sea--and the mastermind behind a sinister scheme to invade the land world by using the â€œgreat beam-forcesâ€ emitted by a special "tower" to send the ocean waters roaring down upon Earthâ€™s cities, so that he and his warriors can ride the mighty waves into the cities to carry out their campaign of conquest and destruction.

Alerted to Aktharâ€™s impeding treachery by the red-haired Princess Kuella, King Saffroâ€™s lovely mermaid daughter, [[Superman]] demolishes the diabolical tower, thus forcing the inundating ocean waters to recede from the cities, and then hands a stunning defeat to Akthar and his band of undersea warriors. Pursued relentlessly by Superman as he flees desperately back toward the safety of the undersea city, the fanatical Akthar finally takes his own life, along with that of every last member of the undersea kingdom, when he deliberately detonates a titanic explosion that obliterates the entire kingdom in a cataclysmic eruption of falling water (S No. 14/3, Jan/Feb 1942).

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Agamemnon

2005-03-13T04:29:15Z

Admiral Chew:

In Greek mythology, the king of Mycenae. He was the commander-in-chief of the Greek armies in the war to recover Helen, the wife of his brother Menelaus, from the Trojans. [[Superman]] meets Agamemnon, and helps him complete construction of the legendary Trojan horse, during a time-journey to ancient Greece that he makes in July-August 1948 (S No. 53/2: â€œThe Oracle from Metropolis!â€).

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Superman Revenge Squad

2005-03-13T04:06:19Z

Admiral Chew:

[[Image:Superman-Revenge-Squad.gif]]

A loosely knit organization of extraterrestrial villains, founded originally by the warlike inhabitants of the planet Wexr II but now comprised of aliens from many planets, who have for years, ever since [[Superman]] was a teen-ager, sought to wreak vengeance on the Man of Steel in retaliation for having repeatedly thwarted their attempts to subjugate peaceful planets and "dominate the universe" (Act No 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!"; and others). In the words of one Squad member:

We of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' have tried for
decades to get even with '''Superman'''! We have hated him
ever since, as '''Superboy''', he stopped [us] from conquer-
ing peaceful planets in outer space! Our squad has tried
to destroy him many times--but we've always failed! [Act
No. 295, Dec 1962 "Superman Goes Wild!"].

The Members of the Superman Revenge Squad are fully aware the Clark Kent is secretly Superman (Act No. 286, March 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!" and others).

In March 1962 members of the Superman Revenge Squad set in motion an elaborate scheme to wreak vengeance on Superman by destroying the Earth (Act No 286: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!"). "Only when his beloved Earth lies in smoking ruins," snarls their leader, a blue skinned alien named Rava, "will he realize that we have finally repaid him for wrecking all our plans to dominate the universe!" (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

The first phase of the villains' scheme involves surreptitiously exposing Superman to a variety of red [[kryptonite]] whose effect they know, from having previously tested the substance on [[Krypto the Superdog]], will be to make Superman experience terrifying nightmares set in the future. In one such nightmare, for example, Superman dreams that, in the distant future, the great-great-great-great-grandson of [[Pete Ross]] and the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Lana Lang]] are husband and wife, and that they attempt to destroy him by overexposure to green kryptonite. The nightmares are frightening and deeply disturbing, but after having deduced that they are being caused by exposure to red kryptonite, Superman reasons that the nightmares are, after all, only harmless fantasies and that the effects of the red kryptonite will soon wear off (Act No. 286, Mar 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!")

It is then, however, that the Superman Revenge Squad initiates phase two of its scheme: the invasion of [[Metropolis]] by an army of extraterrestrial robots which shoot "jets of deadly anti-chlorophyll acid at the ground, converting the earth into a crawling blight that will spread like wildfire till not a blade of grass is left!" "Then," gloat the villains, "all humanity will starve to death!"

At first, as the ruthless extraterrestrial aliens had correctly anticipated, Superman assumes that the deadly robot invasion is merely another of his recurring red-kryptonite-induced nightmares. Ultimately, however, he realizes that the robot invasion is real and destroys the alien robots before they can overrun the Earth.

"Curse '''Superman'''!" mutters Rava angrily to his comrades, hovering high above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft. "He's foiled us again!" But we of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' will never give up hope! Some day we will execute the perfect revenge against '''Superman'''! (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

In December 1962 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad set of to "wreak a vengeance on Superman that is worse that death" by transforming him "from a hero beloved by all...into the most feared and hated person on Earth!" Hovering just outside Earth's atmosphere in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, the aliens employ a "telepathic signal gun"--a diabolical "telepathic-hypnotic weapon" which is specifically "tuned to Superman's brain"--to bombard Superman's mind with a series of powerful "hypnotic commands" which the Man of Steel is powerless to disobey.

Under the baleful influence of the aliens' fiendish weapon, Superman embarks on a rampage of insanely destructive acts, demolishing the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]], the [[Sphinx]], and the [[Eiffel Tower]]; denouncing the United Nations on a television program devoted to the cause of international goodwill; maliciously shoving the [[moon]] out of its proper orbit, causing massive tidal waves on the Earth's surface and an undersea disaster in [[Atlantis]]. Confident that they will succeed in their scheme to "humiliate Superman beyond his endurance" by forcing him to commit acts of destruction "that will disgrace him forever," the villains even go so far as to communicate with Superman by means of "a hypnotic-telepathic beam that penetrates [his] mind," informing him exactly what they have been doing to him and gloating over their ability to "compel him to do anything we want!" Indeed, before long, the villains have made Superman the most despised man on Earth.

Fortunately for Superman, however, the aliens periodically "turn off the telepathic beam and let Superman regain his sanity for a brief time" so that they can force him to endure the painful humiliation of being hated by almost everyone on earth. It is during one of these periods on metal lucidity, while he is no longer under the baleful control of the villains' telepathic signal gun, that Superman enlists the aid of Perry White in a ruse designed to throw the Superman Revenge Squad members off their guard long enough for the [[Superman Emergency Squad]] to apprehend them. By and large, the ruse succeeds, but as the Superman Emergency Squad closes in on the aliens' spacecraft, the villains blow themselves and their craft to smithereens rather than submit to capture (Act No. 295: "Superman Goes Wild!").

In May 1963 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, piloting their flying-saucerlike spacecraft at such "incredible velocity" that it hurtles across the time barrier, cunningly lure Superman into perusing them into the distant future, to the vicinity of [[Metropolis]] one million years from now. In this far-future ear, when Earth's sun is no longer yellow, but red, Superman realizes, to his horror, that he has completely lost his super-powers. "The sun...it's '''red''' now not yellow!" muses Superman ruefully as the villains soar away gloating in their spacecraft, confident that they have lured Superman into a deathtrap from which he cannot possible escape. "In this far future [era], Earthâ€™s sun has become red as suns usually do as they get old! But...but...but under a red sun, like that of perished '''Krypton''', I have no super-powers! Only the rays of a yellow sun give me powers!"

Stranded without his super-powers in the world of the far, far, future, at a time when the Earth is a barren wasteland devoid of water and all that is left of the human race has long since migrated to more hospitable planets, Superman is literally "the last man on Earth," alone except for the weird creatures that have managed to adapt to a life without water. The only remaining vestiges of humanity are a half dozen lifelike androids of Superman's old friends and adversaries that were created by the people of the distant future to "march like real people in each year's Superman Commemoration Parade."

"What a mockery," sighs Superman dejectedly, "--I'm the last man on Earth with only androids of my past comrades for company! And I'll never escape from this dead world!"

Ultimately, however, after a perilous and arduous journey, Superman finally reaches the ruins of his [[Fortress of Solitude]], clambering up the face of the jagged rock cliff and entering the Fortress through the massive keyhole. Inside the Fortress, after reducing himself to lilliputian size with the aid of a sample of red krpytonite that he knows will render him temporarily tiny, Superman climbs aboard a Kandorian (''see'' [[Kandor]]) rocket ship and skillfully pilots back across the time barrier to the city of Metropolis in the year 1963. Once retuned to the yellow-sun environment of the twentieth-century Earth, Superman finds his super-powers restored to him, and once the effects of the red kryptonite have worn off, the Man of Steel returns to his normal size. "Will Earth really be like a million years from now?" wonders Superman. "Or was that only one of many possible futures? I may never know--but I hope I'm never again the last man on Earth!" (Act No. 300: ""Superman Under the Red Sun!").

By August 1963 several members of the Superman Revenge Squad have set in motion an intricately convoluted scheme to destroy Superman. To lay the groundwork for their complex scheme, the villains deliberately caused an "accident" in outer space in which [[Ajax]], one of Superman's own [[Superman robots]], was seriously damaged by a hurtling meteor. Taking the mortally injured robot aboard their spacecraft, the villains, feigning friendship, performed a delicate operation that transferred Ajax's super-sophisticated robot mind out of its robot body and into a "chemically-made android body" that is utterly lifelike.

"Our science," explained one of the aliens to Ajax, "enables us to take only the '''contents''' of your mind and transfer them to the brain of this chemically-made '''android''' body...which has super-powers! You talked during your come and we learned that you were a robot-servant of '''Superman''' on Earth! But now that you are a person, you need not be a servant!"

"Why, that's right," exclaimed Ajax happily as he surveyed his unbelievably lifelike synthetic body, a body capable of human thought and human emotion, "...'''Superman''' was my master, but now I have no master!"

Overjoyed at the prospect of living out the remainder of his life as a true human being, Ajax could hardly wait to return to Earth to embark on a super-heroic career independent of Superman, The aliens renamed him [[Wonder-Man]] and provided him with a colorful new costume "made of super-durable fabric." Warning him that Superman would be resentful of his new independence, they gave him a chunk of green kryptonite--harmless to Wonder-Man but potentially fatal to Superman--which he could use as a weapon against the Man of Steel in the event he attempted to interfere with Wonder-Man's super-heroic career.

Hovering outside the aliens' spacecraft preparatory to returning to Earth, however, Wonder-Man overheard the villains gloating over their plan. Their real motive in "helping" him, he learned, was to create a rival for Superman in the hope that this rivalry would result in a violent conflict between the two heroes in which Superman would be destroyed. Wonder-Man also learned that the villains had deliberately endowed him with a defective android body, thereby assuring his demise within the space of several days.

And so, having overheard the scheme, Wonder-Man returns to Metropolis, where he performs a series of stunning super-feats that soon have him eclipsing Superman as the city's foremost hero. "...in the days that follow, '''Superman''' becomes half-forgotten and '''Metropolis''' honors '''Wonder-Man''' as its new hero!" Wonder-Man even goes so far as to make romantic overtures to [[Lois Lane]] and to dispossess Superman from his Fortress of Solitude, In the inevitable confrontation that follows, Superman falls helpless to the ground, half-paralyzed by the baleful radiations emanating from Wonder-Man's chunk of green kryptonite. "Well, '''Superman''', I've won our duel," sneers Wonder-Man, "...and I'm leaving you here with the kryptonite to keep you immobile...until you die from its deadly rays!"

No sooner has Wonder-Man departed that the Superman Revenge Squad members arrive on the scene in their spacecraft and begin to gloat over the fallen Superman. Wonder-Man's rivalry with Superman and the violent confrontation it provoked, however, were only part of Wonder-Man's own plan for luring the villains into the open where they could be easily apprehended. Streaking back to the scene, he hurls the debilitating green kryptonite far into outer space, and, when the villains attempt to flee in their spacecraft, he and Superman seize the craft and hurl in light-years away into the interstellar void. "Itâ€™ll be years...years of prison in the ship," observes Superman, "...before they can brake impetus of our mighty throw!"

Superman had already deduced that Wonder-Man was once a Superman robot and the his pretended ruthlessness was only a ploy to trap the villains. Now he proposes to reveal the true story of Wonder-Man's heroism to the world and to form an enduring super-heroic partnership with his former robot. But already Wonder-Man's time has run out, and he collapses, mortally stricken, in Supermanâ€™s arms. "It has been wonderful to be human, even for a little while," whispers Wonder-Man, "...to have felt, thought and loved! Goodbye...'''Superman''', my master..."

"Not your master now, '''Wonder-Man'''!" replies Superman gently. "You die as you lived, as a human being and as my frined!" (S No. 163/1: "Wonder-Man, the New Hero of Metropolis

In November 1963 Saturn Woman (''see'' [[Saturn Girl]]) becomes Superman's ally in an elaborate, and ultimately successful, ruse designed to prevent three members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering over Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, from learning the true effects of the diabolical "counter-energy ray" they recently fired as Superman, i.e., its ability to prevent Superman from exercising any of his super-powers except while he is upside down. The ruse, in which Saturn Woman, posing as the enchantress [[Circe]], pretends to force Superman to carry out a series of menial, humiliating tasks--ostensibly in retaliation for his having once spurned her love--by threatening to use her magical powers to turn the Man of Steel into an animal if he fails to carry out his everyday tasks in an upside-down position until such time as the effects of the villains' counter-energy ray have worn off and the Superman Revenge Squad members have fled into outer space, convinced that their weapon has had no effect whatever on Superman (S No. 165/1: pts. I-II--"Beauty and the Super-Beast!"; "Circe's Super-Slave"). This story is in many respects similar to Action Comics No. 204 (May 1955: "The Man Who Could Make Superman Do Anything!". (''See'' [[Spulby, Sam]].)

By June 1964 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad--one of them known as the Android Master--have kidnapped [[Batman]], Lois Lane, [[Lori Lemaris]], [[Jimmy Olsen]], and [[Perry White]] and replaced them with lifelike android imposters as part of an elaborate scheme to torment Superman and destroy his morale by making him believe that his closest friends have inexplicably turned against him, learning the secret of his dual identity, for example, and then demanding blackmail in exchange for their silence. Demoralized, for a time, at having been betrayed by his best friends, Superman eventually comes to realize that his friends are being impersonated by lifelike androids. Before long, [[Supergirl]] has rescued his real friends from the cave beneath Metropolis where they have been imprisoned in a state of suspended animation, and the members of the Superman Revenge Squad, their scheme to break Supermanâ€™s spirit thwarted, flee defeated into outer space (Act No. 313: "The End of Clark Kentâ€™s Secret Identity!").

In October 1964 a woman calling herself [[Illena]] arrives on earth in a spacecraft and informs Superman that she has come to meet him. She has a super-power that allows he to turn anyone to stone and always wears a green turban on her head. Jealous of the time she's spending with Superman, Lois Lane and Lana Lang form a truce in their rivalry over Superman in order to prevent Superman from falling in love with their new rival. When Lois and Lana witness Illena use her power to turn a government agent into stone they follow her back to her appartment to learn what she's really up to. There they learn that she is in fact agent X9831Q of the Superman Revenge Squad when they hear her reporting to her leaders on a hand held communicator. The source of Illena's power is a skull cap made from the snakes from the head of the ancient Earth Gorgan Medusa. After Medusa's death it had eventually come into the possession of alien explores and later into the Superman Revenges Squad's possession. Illena keeps it concealed under her turban and intends to use it to turn Superman into stone.

When Illena goes to sleep, Lois removes the skull cap from Illena's head. Before she and Lana are able to sneak out, Illena awakes and tries to turn them into stone but without the skull cap she is powerless. Lois instead turns Illena into stone. Superman arrives, and Lois gives him the skull cap, and Superman uses it to return Illena and those she turned to stone back to normal. He places the cap in his [[Fortress of Solitude]] as a trophy and takes Illena to an interstellar prison. In the end rather than renew their rivalry Lois and Lana decide to be frineds. (SGLL No. 52: "The Lois Lane-Lana Lang Truce!")

In March 1965 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, bombard Clark Kent--whom they know to be Superman--with a "cowardice ray" with the intention of transforming Superman into a cringing coward, only to discover, to their dismay, that their ray has malfunctioned, affecting "only the 'Clark Kent identity' part of his brain" and leaving the Superman portion unaffected. The effect of the ray barrage has therefore been to transform Superman into a craven coward, but only when he is dressed in the clothing of his Clark Kent identity. In the words of one of the villains, "Heâ€™s still brave as '''Superman!'''"

Although Superman retains his super-powers in both identities and remains invulnerable to harm, the irrational fear and terror he experiences whenever he becomes Clark Kent represent a serious threat to his super-heroic career. Ultimately, however, Supergirl succeeds in curing him of the cowardice rayâ€™s effects. And when the villains return to Earth to bombard him with their ray again, Superman seizes their spacecraft and hurls it into "a far-distant galaxy" many light-years away, where the "outlaw vessel" is sure to be spotted and taken into custody by the "space police" (Act No. 322: "The Coward of Steel!").

Appearances: (as Superboy Revenge Squad) SB Nos. 94, 114, 118, NSB Nos. 32,54 (as Superman Revenge Squad) Act Nos. 286, 287, 295, 300, SPJO Nos. 163, 165, S Nos. 163, 165, Act No. 313, SGLL No. 52, SPJO No. 83, S No. 322, Act No. 343, S. No. 198, WF No. 175, Act Nos. 367, 380, 445, 501, S Nos. 366, 367, 368, DCCP 87, S No. 414

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Superman Revenge Squad

2005-03-13T04:03:34Z

Admiral Chew:

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A loosely knit organization of extraterrestrial villains, founded originally by the warlike inhabitants of the planet Wexr II but now comprised of aliens from many planets, who have for years, ever since [[Superman]] was a teen-ager, sought to wreak vengeance on the Man of Steel in retaliation for having repeatedly thwarted their attempts to subjugate peaceful planets and "dominate the universe" (Act No 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!"; and others). In the words of one Squad member:

We of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' have tried for
decades to get even with '''Superman'''! We have hated him
ever since, as '''Superboy''', he stopped [us] from conquer-
ing peaceful planets in outer space! Our squad has tried
to destroy him many times--but we've always failed! [Act
No. 295, Dec 1962 "Superman Goes Wild!"].

The Members of the Superman Revenge Squad are fully aware the Clark Kent is secretly Superman (Act No. 286, March 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!" and others).

In March 1962 members of the Superman Revenge Squad set in motion an elaborate scheme to wreak vengeance on Superman by destroying the Earth (Act No 286: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!"). "Only when his beloved Earth lies in smoking ruins," snarls their leader, a blue skinned alien named Rava, "will he realize that we have finally repaid him for wrecking all our plans to dominate the universe!" (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

The first phase of the villains' scheme involves surreptitiously exposing Superman to a variety of red [[kryptonite]] whose effect they know, from having previously tested the substance on [[Krypto the Superdog]], will be to make Superman experience terrifying nightmares set in the future. In one such nightmare, for example, Superman dreams that, in the distant future, the great-great-great-great-grandson of [[Pete Ross]] and the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Lana Lang]] are husband and wife, and that they attempt to destroy him by overexposure to green kryptonite. The nightmares are frightening and deeply disturbing, but after having deduced that they are being caused by exposure to red kryptonite, Superman reasons that the nightmares are, after all, only harmless fantasies and that the effects of the red kryptonite will soon wear off (Act No. 286, Mar 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!")

It is then, however, that the Superman Revenge Squad initiates phase two of its scheme: the invasion of [[Metropolis]] by an army of extraterrestrial robots which shoot "jets of deadly anti-chlorophyll acid at the ground, converting the earth into a crawling blight that will spread like wildfire till not a blade of grass is left!" "Then," gloat the villains, "all humanity will starve to death!"

At first, as the ruthless extraterrestrial aliens had correctly anticipated, Superman assumes that the deadly robot invasion is merely another of his recurring red-kryptonite-induced nightmares. Ultimately, however, he realizes that the robot invasion is real and destroys the alien robots before they can overrun the Earth.

"Curse '''Superman'''!" mutters Rava angrily to his comrades, hovering high above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft. "He's foiled us again!" But we of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' will never give up hope! Some day we will execute the perfect revenge against '''Superman'''! (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

In December 1962 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad set of to "wreak a vengeance on Superman that is worse that death" by transforming him "from a hero beloved by all...into the most feared and hated person on Earth!" Hovering just outside Earth's atmosphere in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, the aliens employ a "telepathic signal gun"--a diabolical "telepathic-hypnotic weapon" which is specifically "tuned to Superman's brain"--to bombard Superman's mind with a series of powerful "hypnotic commands" which the Man of Steel is powerless to disobey.

Under the baleful influence of the aliens' fiendish weapon, Superman embarks on a rampage of insanely destructive acts, demolishing the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]], the [[Sphinx]], and the [[Eiffel Tower]]; denouncing the United Nations on a television program devoted to the cause of international goodwill; maliciously shoving the [[moon]] out of its proper orbit, causing massive tidal waves on the Earth's surface and an undersea disaster in [[Atlantis]]. Confident that they will succeed in their scheme to "humiliate Superman beyond his endurance" by forcing him to commit acts of destruction "that will disgrace him forever," the villains even go so far as to communicate with Superman by means of "a hypnotic-telepathic beam that penetrates [his] mind," informing him exactly what they have been doing to him and gloating over their ability to "compel him to do anything we want!" Indeed, before long, the villains have made Superman the most despised man on Earth.

Fortunately for Superman, however, the aliens periodically "turn off the telepathic beam and let Superman regain his sanity for a brief time" so that they can force him to endure the painful humiliation of being hated by almost everyone on earth. It is during one of these periods on metal lucidity, while he is no longer under the baleful control of the villains' telepathic signal gun, that Superman enlists the aid of Perry White in a ruse designed to throw the Superman Revenge Squad members off their guard long enough for the [[Superman Emergency Squad]] to apprehend them. By and large, the ruse succeeds, but as the Superman Emergency Squad closes in on the aliens' spacecraft, the villains blow themselves and their craft to smithereens rather than submit to capture (Act No. 295: "Superman Goes Wild!").

In May 1963 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, piloting their flying-saucerlike spacecraft at such "incredible velocity" that it hurtles across the time barrier, cunningly lure Superman into perusing them into the distant future, to the vicinity of [[Metropolis]] one million years from now. In this far-future ear, when Earth's sun is no longer yellow, but red, Superman realizes, to his horror, that he has completely lost his super-powers. "The sun...it's '''red''' now not yellow!" muses Superman ruefully as the villains soar away gloating in their spacecraft, confident that they have lured Superman into a deathtrap from which he cannot possible escape. "In this far future [era], Earthâ€™s sun has become red as suns usually do as they get old! But...but...but under a red sun, like that of perished '''Krypton''', I have no super-powers! Only the rays of a yellow sun give me powers!"

Stranded without his super-powers in the world of the far, far, future, at a time when the Earth is a barren wasteland devoid of water and all that is left of the human race has long since migrated to more hospitable planets, Superman is literally "the last man on Earth," alone except for the weird creatures that have managed to adapt to a life without water. The only remaining vestiges of humanity are a half dozen lifelike androids of Superman's old friends and adversaries that were created by the people of the distant future to "march like real people in each year's Superman Commemoration Parade."

"What a mockery," sighs Superman dejectedly, "--I'm the last man on Earth with only androids of my past comrades for company! And I'll never escape from this dead world!"

Ultimately, however, after a perilous and arduous journey, Superman finally reaches the ruins of his [[Fortress of Solitude]], clambering up the face of the jagged rock cliff and entering the Fortress through the massive keyhole. Inside the Fortress, after reducing himself to lilliputian size with the aid of a sample of red krpytonite that he knows will render him temporarily tiny, Superman climbs aboard a Kandorian (''see'' [[Kandor]]) rocket ship and skillfully pilots back across the time barrier to the city of Metropolis in the year 1963. Once retuned to the yellow-sun environment of the twentieth-century Earth, Superman finds his super-powers restored to him, and once the effects of the red kryptonite have worn off, the Man of Steel returns to his normal size. "Will Earth really be like a million years from now?" wonders Superman. "Or was that only one of many possible futures? I may never know--but I hope I'm never again the last man on Earth!" (Act No. 300: ""Superman Under the Red Sun!").

By August 1963 several members of the Superman Revenge Squad have set in motion an intricately convoluted scheme to destroy Superman. To lay the groundwork for their complex scheme, the villains deliberately caused an "accident" in outer space in which [[Ajax]], one of Superman's own [[Superman robots]], was seriously damaged by a hurtling meteor. Taking the mortally injured robot aboard their spacecraft, the villains, feigning friendship, performed a delicate operation that transferred Ajax's super-sophisticated robot mind out of its robot body and into a "chemically-made android body" that is utterly lifelike.

"Our science," explained one of the aliens to Ajax, "enables us to take only the '''contents''' of your mind and transfer them to the brain of this chemically-made '''android''' body...which has super-powers! You talked during your come and we learned that you were a robot-servant of '''Superman''' on Earth! But now that you are a person, you need not be a servant!"

"Why, that's right," exclaimed Ajax happily as he surveyed his unbelievably lifelike synthetic body, a body capable of human thought and human emotion, "...'''Superman''' was my master, but now I have no master!"

Overjoyed at the prospect of living out the remainder of his life as a true human being, Ajax could hardly wait to return to Earth to embark on a super-heroic career independent of Superman, The aliens renamed him [[Wonder-Man]] and provided him with a colorful new costume "made of super-durable fabric." Warning him that Superman would be resentful of his new independence, they gave him a chunk of green kryptonite--harmless to Wonder-Man but potentially fatal to Superman--which he could use as a weapon against the Man of Steel in the event he attempted to interfere with Wonder-Man's super-heroic career.

Hovering outside the aliens' spacecraft preparatory to returning to Earth, however, Wonder-Man overheard the villains gloating over their plan. Their real motive in "helping" him, he learned, was to create a rival for Superman in the hope that this rivalry would result in a violent conflict between the two heroes in which Superman would be destroyed. Wonder-Man also learned that the villains had deliberately endowed him with a defective android body, thereby assuring his demise within the space of several days.

And so, having overheard the scheme, Wonder-Man returns to Metropolis, where he performs a series of stunning super-feats that soon have him eclipsing Superman as the city's foremost hero. "...in the days that follow, '''Superman''' becomes half-forgotten and '''Metropolis''' honors '''Wonder-Man''' as its new hero!" Wonder-Man even goes so far as to make romantic overtures to [[Lois Lane]] and to dispossess Superman from his Fortress of Solitude, In the inevitable confrontation that follows, Superman falls helpless to the ground, half-paralyzed by the baleful radiations emanating from Wonder-Man's chunk of green kryptonite. "Well, '''Superman''', I've won our duel," sneers Wonder-Man, "...and I'm leaving you here with the kryptonite to keep you immobile...until you die from its deadly rays!"

No sooner has Wonder-Man departed that the Superman Revenge Squad members arrive on the scene in their spacecraft and begin to gloat over the fallen Superman. Wonder-Man's rivalry with Superman and the violent confrontation it provoked, however, were only part of Wonder-Man's own plan for luring the villains into the open where they could be easily apprehended. Streaking back to the scene, he hurls the debilitating green kryptonite far into outer space, and, when the villains attempt to flee in their spacecraft, he and Superman seize the craft and hurl in light-years away into the interstellar void. "Itâ€™ll be years...years of prison in the ship," observes Superman, "...before they can brake impetus of our mighty throw!"

Superman had already deduced that Wonder-Man was once a Superman robot and the his pretended ruthlessness was only a ploy to trap the villains. Now he proposes to reveal the true story of Wonder-Man's heroism to the world and to form an enduring super-heroic partnership with his former robot. But already Wonder-Man's time has run out, and he collapses, mortally stricken, in Supermanâ€™s arms. "It has been wonderful to be human, even for a little while," whispers Wonder-Man, "...to have felt, thought and loved! Goodbye...'''Superman''', my master..."

"Not your master now, '''Wonder-Man'''!" replies Superman gently. "You die as you lived, as a human being and as my frined!" (S No. 163/1: "Wonder-Man, the New Hero of Metropolis

In November 1963 Saturn Woman (''see'' [[Saturn Girl]]) becomes Superman's ally in an elaborate, and ultimately successful, ruse designed to prevent three members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering over Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, from learning the true effects of the diabolical "counter-energy ray" they recently fired as Superman, i.e., its ability to prevent Superman from exercising any of his super-powers except while he is upside down. The ruse, in which Saturn Woman, posing as the enchantress [[Circe]], pretends to force Superman to carry out a series of menial, humiliating tasks--ostensibly in retaliation for his having once spurned her love--by threatening to use her magical powers to turn the Man of Steel into an animal if he fails to carry out his everyday tasks in an upside-down position until such time as the effects of the villains' counter-energy ray have worn off and the Superman Revenge Squad members have fled into outer space, convinced that their weapon has had no effect whatever on Superman (S No. 165/1: pts. I-II--"Beauty and the Super-Beast!"; "Circe's Super-Slave"). This story is in many respects similar to Action Comics No. 204 (May 1955: "The Man Who Could Make Superman Do Anything!". (''See'' [[Spulby, Sam]].)

By June 1964 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad--one of them known as the Android Master--have kidnapped [[Batman]], Lois Lane, [[Lori Lemaris]], [[Jimmy Olsen]], and [[Perry White]] and replaced them with lifelike android imposters as part of an elaborate scheme to torment Superman and destroy his morale by making him believe that his closest friends have inexplicably turned against him, learning the secret of his dual identity, for example, and then demanding blackmail in exchange for their silence. Demoralized, for a time, at having been betrayed by his best friends, Superman eventually comes to realize that his friends are being impersonated by lifelike androids. Before long, [[Supergirl]] has rescued his real friends from the cave beneath Metropolis where they have been imprisoned in a state of suspended animation, and the members of the Superman Revenge Squad, their scheme to break Supermanâ€™s spirit thwarted, flee defeated into outer space (Act No. 313: "The End of Clark Kentâ€™s Secret Identity!").

In October 1964 a woman calling herself [[Illena]] arrives on earth in a spacecraft and informs Superman that she has come to meet him. She has a super-power that allows he to turn anyone to stone and always wears a green turban on her head. Jealous of the time she's spending with Superman, Lois Lane and Lana Lang form a truce in their rivalry over Superman in order to prevent Superman from falling in love with their new rival. When Lois and Lana witness Illena use her power to turn a government agent into stone they follow her back to her appartment to learn what she's really up to. There they learn that she is in fact agent X9831Q of the Superman Revenge Squad when they hear her reporting to her leaders on a hand held communicator. The source of Illena's power is a skull cap made from the snakes from the head of the ancient Earth Gorgan Medusa. After Medusa's death it had eventually come into the possession of alien explores and later into the Superman Revenges Squad's possession. Illena keeps it concealed under her turban and intends to use it to turn Superman into stone.

When Illena goes to sleep, Lois removes the skull cap from Illena's head. Before she and Lana are able to sneak out, Illena awakes and tries to turn them into stone but without the skull cap she is powerless. Lois instead turns Illena into stone. Superman arrives, and Lois gives him the skull cap, and Superman uses it to return Illena and those she turned to stone back to normal. He places the cap in his [[Fortress of Solitude]] as a trophy and takes Illena to an interstellar prison. In the end rather than renew their rivalry Lois and Lana decide to be frineds. (SGLL No. 52: "The Lois Lane-Lana Lang Truse!")

In March 1965 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, bombard Clark Kent--whom they know to be Superman--with a "cowardice ray" with the intention of transforming Superman into a cringing coward, only to discover, to their dismay, that their ray has malfunctioned, affecting "only the 'Clark Kent identity' part of his brain" and leaving the Superman portion unaffected. The effect of the ray barrage has therefore been to transform Superman into a craven coward, but only when he is dressed in the clothing of his Clark Kent identity. In the words of one of the villains, "Heâ€™s still brave as '''Superman!'''"

Although Superman retains his super-powers in both identities and remains invulnerable to harm, the irrational fear and terror he experiences whenever he becomes Clark Kent represent a serious threat to his super-heroic career. Ultimately, however, Supergirl succeeds in curing him of the cowardice rayâ€™s effects. And when the villains return to Earth to bombard him with their ray again, Superman seizes their spacecraft and hurls it into "a far-distant galaxy" many light-years away, where the "outlaw vessel" is sure to be spotted and taken into custody by the "space police" (Act No. 322: "The Coward of Steel!").

Appearances: (as Superboy Revenge Squad) SB Nos. 94, 114, 118, NSB Nos. 32,54 (as Superman Revenge Squad) Act Nos. 286, 287, 295, 300, SPJO Nos. 163, 165, S Nos. 163, 165, Act No. 313, SGLL No. 52, SPJO No. 83, S No. 322, Act No. 343, S. No. 198, WF No. 175, Act Nos. 367, 380, 445, 501, S Nos. 366, 367, 368, DCCP 87, S No. 414

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Superman Revenge Squad

2005-03-13T03:23:04Z

Admiral Chew: finishes TGSB entry

[[Image:Superman-Revenge-Squad.gif]]

A loosely knit organization of extraterrestrial villains, founded originally by the warlike inhabitants of the planet Wexr II but now comprised of aliens from many planets, who have for years, ever since [[Superman]] was a teen-ager, sought to wreak vengeance on the Man of Steel in retaliation for having repeatedly thwarted their attempts to subjugate peaceful planets and "dominate the universe" (Act No 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!"; and others). In the words of one Squad member:

We of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' have tried for
decades to get even with '''Superman'''! We have hated him
ever since, as '''Superboy''', he stopped [us] from conquer-
ing peaceful planets in outer space! Our squad has tried
to destroy him many times--but we've always failed! [Act
No. 295, Dec 1962 "Superman Goes Wild!"].

The Members of the Superman Revenge Squad are fully aware the Clark Kent is secretly Superman (Act No. 286, March 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!" and others).

In March 1962 members of the Superman Revenge Squad set in motion an elaborate scheme to wreak vengeance on Superman by destroying the Earth (Act No 286: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!"). "Only when his beloved Earth lies in smoking ruins," snarls their leader, a blue skinned alien named Rava, "will he realize that we have finally repaid him for wrecking all our plans to dominate the universe!" (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

The first phase of the villains' scheme involves surreptitiously exposing Superman to a variety of red [[kryptonite]] whose effect they know, from having previously tested the substance on [[Krypto the Superdog]], will be to make Superman experience terrifying nightmares set in the future. In one such nightmare, for example, Superman dreams that, in the distant future, the great-great-great-great-grandson of [[Pete Ross]] and the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Lana Lang]] are husband and wife, and that they attempt to destroy him by overexposure to green kryptonite. The nightmares are frightening and deeply disturbing, but after having deduced that they are being caused by exposure to red kryptonite, Superman reasons that the nightmares are, after all, only harmless fantasies and that the effects of the red kryptonite will soon wear off (Act No. 286, Mar 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!")

It is then, however, that the Superman Revenge Squad initiates phase two of its scheme: the invasion of [[Metropolis]] by an army of extraterrestrial robots which shoot "jets of deadly anti-chlorophyll acid at the ground, converting the earth into a crawling blight that will spread like wildfire till not a blade of grass is left!" "Then," gloat the villains, "all humanity will starve to death!"

At first, as the ruthless extraterrestrial aliens had correctly anticipated, Superman assumes that the deadly robot invasion is merely another of his recurring red-kryptonite-induced nightmares. Ultimately, however, he realizes that the robot invasion is real and destroys the alien robots before they can overrun the Earth.

"Curse '''Superman'''!" mutters Rava angrily to his comrades, hovering high above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft. "He's foiled us again!" But we of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' will never give up hope! Some day we will execute the perfect revenge against '''Superman'''! (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

In December 1962 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad set of to "wreak a vengeance on Superman that is worse that death" by transforming him "from a hero beloved by all...into the most feared and hated person on Earth!" Hovering just outside Earth's atmosphere in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, the aliens employ a "telepathic signal gun"--a diabolical "telepathic-hypnotic weapon" which is specifically "tuned to Superman's brain"--to bombard Superman's mind with a series of powerful "hypnotic commands" which the Man of Steel is powerless to disobey.

Under the baleful influence of the aliens' fiendish weapon, Superman embarks on a rampage of insanely destructive acts, demolishing the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]], the [[Sphinx]], and the [[Eiffel Tower]]; denouncing the United Nations on a television program devoted to the cause of international goodwill; maliciously shoving the [[moon]] out of its proper orbit, causing massive tidal waves on the Earth's surface and an undersea disaster in [[Atlantis]]. Confident that they will succeed in their scheme to "humiliate Superman beyond his endurance" by forcing him to commit acts of destruction "that will disgrace him forever," the villains even go so far as to communicate with Superman by means of "a hypnotic-telepathic beam that penetrates [his] mind," informing him exactly what they have been doing to him and gloating over their ability to "compel him to do anything we want!" Indeed, before long, the villains have made Superman the most despised man on Earth.

Fortunately for Superman, however, the aliens periodically "turn off the telepathic beam and let Superman regain his sanity for a brief time" so that they can force him to endure the painful humiliation of being hated by almost everyone on earth. It is during one of these periods on metal lucidity, while he is no longer under the baleful control of the villains' telepathic signal gun, that Superman enlists the aid of Perry White in a ruse designed to throw the Superman Revenge Squad members off their guard long enough for the [[Superman Emergency Squad]] to apprehend them. By and large, the ruse succeeds, but as the Superman Emergency Squad closes in on the aliens' spacecraft, the villains blow themselves and their craft to smithereens rather than submit to capture (Act No. 295: "Superman Goes Wild!").

In May 1963 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, piloting their flying-saucerlike spacecraft at such "incredible velocity" that it hurtles across the time barrier, cunningly lure Superman into perusing them into the distant future, to the vicinity of [[Metropolis]] one million years from now. In this far-future ear, when Earth's sun is no longer yellow, but red, Superman realizes, to his horror, that he has completely lost his super-powers. "The sun...it's '''red''' now not yellow!" muses Superman ruefully as the villains soar away gloating in their spacecraft, confident that they have lured Superman into a deathtrap from which he cannot possible escape. "In this far future [era], Earthâ€™s sun has become red as suns usually do as they get old! But...but...but under a red sun, like that of perished '''Krypton''', I have no super-powers! Only the rays of a yellow sun give me powers!"

Stranded without his super-powers in the world of the far, far, future, at a time when the Earth is a barren wasteland devoid of water and all that is left of the human race has long since migrated to more hospitable planets, Superman is literally "the last man on Earth," alone except for the weird creatures that have managed to adapt to a life without water. The only remaining vestiges of humanity are a half dozen lifelike androids of Superman's old friends and adversaries that were created by the people of the distant future to "march like real people in each year's Superman Commemoration Parade."

"What a mockery," sighs Superman dejectedly, "--I'm the last man on Earth with only androids of my past comrades for company! And I'll never escape from this dead world!"

Ultimately, however, after a perilous and arduous journey, Superman finally reaches the ruins of his [[Fortress of Solitude]], clambering up the face of the jagged rock cliff and entering the Fortress through the massive keyhole. Inside the Fortress, after reducing himself to lilliputian size with the aid of a sample of red krpytonite that he knows will render him temporarily tiny, Superman climbs aboard a Kandorian (''see'' [[Kandor]]) rocket ship and skillfully pilots back across the time barrier to the city of Metropolis in the year 1963. Once retuned to the yellow-sun environment of the twentieth-century Earth, Superman finds his super-powers restored to him, and once the effects of the red kryptonite have worn off, the Man of Steel returns to his normal size. "Will Earth really be like a million years from now?" wonders Superman. "Or was that only one of many possible futures? I may never know--but I hope I'm never again the last man on Earth!" (Act No. 300: ""Superman Under the Red Sun!").

By August 1963 several members of the Superman Revenge Squad have set in motion an intricately convoluted scheme to destroy Superman. To lay the groundwork for their complex scheme, the villains deliberately caused an "accident" in outer space in which [[Ajax]], one of Superman's own [[Superman robots]], was seriously damaged by a hurtling meteor. Taking the mortally injured robot aboard their spacecraft, the villains, feigning friendship, performed a delicate operation that transferred Ajax's super-sophisticated robot mind out of its robot body and into a "chemically-made android body" that is utterly lifelike.

"Our science," explained one of the aliens to Ajax, "enables us to take only the '''contents''' of your mind and transfer them to the brain of this chemically-made '''android''' body...which has super-powers! You talked during your come and we learned that you were a robot-servant of '''Superman''' on Earth! But now that you are a person, you need not be a servant!"

"Why, that's right," exclaimed Ajax happily as he surveyed his unbelievably lifelike synthetic body, a body capable of human thought and human emotion, "...'''Superman''' was my master, but now I have no master!"

Overjoyed at the prospect of living out the remainder of his life as a true human being, Ajax could hardly wait to return to Earth to embark on a super-heroic career independent of Superman, The aliens renamed him [[Wonder-Man]] and provided him with a colorful new costume "made of super-durable fabric." Warning him that Superman would be resentful of his new independence, they gave him a chunk of green kryptonite--harmless to Wonder-Man but potentially fatal to Superman--which he could use as a weapon against the Man of Steel in the event he attempted to interfere with Wonder-Man's super-heroic career.

Hovering outside the aliens' spacecraft preparatory to returning to Earth, however, Wonder-Man overheard the villains gloating over their plan. Their real motive in "helping" him, he learned, was to create a rival for Superman in the hope that this rivalry would result in a violent conflict between the two heroes in which Superman would be destroyed. Wonder-Man also learned that the villains had deliberately endowed him with a defective android body, thereby assuring his demise within the space of several days.

And so, having overheard the scheme, Wonder-Man returns to Metropolis, where he performs a series of stunning super-feats that soon have him eclipsing Superman as the city's foremost hero. "...in the days that follow, '''Superman''' becomes half-forgotten and '''Metropolis''' honors '''Wonder-Man''' as its new hero!" Wonder-Man even goes so far as to make romantic overtures to [[Lois Lane]] and to dispossess Superman from his Fortress of Solitude, In the inevitable confrontation that follows, Superman falls helpless to the ground, half-paralyzed by the baleful radiations emanating from Wonder-Man's chunk of green kryptonite. "Well, '''Superman''', I've won our duel," sneers Wonder-Man, "...and I'm leaving you here with the kryptonite to keep you immobile...until you die from its deadly rays!"

No sooner has Wonder-Man departed that the Superman Revenge Squad members arrive on the scene in their spacecraft and begin to gloat over the fallen Superman. Wonder-Man's rivalry with Superman and the violent confrontation it provoked, however, were only part of Wonder-Man's own plan for luring the villains into the open where they could be easily apprehended. Streaking back to the scene, he hurls the debilitating green kryptonite far into outer space, and, when the villains attempt to flee in their spacecraft, he and Superman seize the craft and hurl in light-years away into the interstellar void. "Itâ€™ll be years...years of prison in the ship," observes Superman, "...before they can brake impetus of our mighty throw!"

Superman had already deduced that Wonder-Man was once a Superman robot and the his pretended ruthlessness was only a ploy to trap the villains. Now he proposes to reveal the true story of Wonder-Man's heroism to the world and to form an enduring super-heroic partnership with his former robot. But already Wonder-Man's time has run out, and he collapses, mortally stricken, in Supermanâ€™s arms. "It has been wonderful to be human, even for a little while," whispers Wonder-Man, "...to have felt, thought and loved! Goodbye...'''Superman''', my master..."

"Not your master now, '''Wonder-Man'''!" replies Superman gently. "You die as you lived, as a human being and as my frined!" (S No. 163/1: "Wonder-Man, the New Hero of Metropolis

In November 1963 Saturn Woman (''see'' [[Saturn Girl]]) becomes Superman's ally in an elaborate, and ultimately successful, ruse designed to prevent three members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering over Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, from learning the true effects of the diabolical "counter-energy ray" they recently fired as Superman, i.e., its ability to prevent Superman from exercising any of his super-powers except while he is upside down. The ruse, in which Saturn Woman, posing as the enchantress [[Circe]], pretends to force Superman to carry out a series of menial, humiliating tasks--ostensibly in retaliation for his having once spurned her love--by threatening to use her magical powers to turn the Man of Steel into an animal if he fails to carry out his everyday tasks in an upside-down position until such time as the effects of the villains' counter-energy ray have worn off and the Superman Revenge Squad members have fled into outer space, convinced that their weapon has had no effect whatever on Superman (S No. 165/1: pts. I-II--"Beauty and the Super-Beast!"; "Circe's Super-Slave"). This story is in many respects similar to Action Comics No. 204 (May 1955: "The Man Who Could Make Superman Do Anything!". (''See'' [[Spulby, Sam]].)

By June 1964 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad--one of them known as the Android Master--have kidnapped [[Batman]], Lois Lane, [[Lori Lemaris]], [[Jimmy Olsen]], and [[Perry White]] and replaced them with lifelike android imposters as part of an elaborate scheme to torment Superman and destroy his morale by making him believe that his closest friends have inexplicably turned against him, learning the secret of his dual identity, for example, and then demanding blackmail in exchange for their silence. Demoralized, for a time, at having been betrayed by his best friends, Superman eventually comes to realize that his friends are being impersonated by lifelike androids. Before long, [[Supergirl]] has rescued his real friends from the cave beneath Metropolis where they have been imprisoned in a state of suspended animation, and the members of the Superman Revenge Squad, their scheme to break Supermanâ€™s spirit thwarted, flee defeated into outer space (Act No. 313: "The End of Clark Kentâ€™s Secret Identity!").

In March 1965 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, bombard Clark Kent--whom they know to be Superman--with a "cowardice ray" with the intention of transforming Superman into a cringing coward, only to discover, to their dismay, that their ray has malfunctioned, affecting "only the 'Clark Kent identity' part of his brain" and leaving the Superman portion unaffected. The effect of the ray barrage has therefore been to transform Superman into a craven coward, but only when he is dressed in the clothing of his Clark Kent identity. In the words of one of the villains, "Heâ€™s still brave as '''Superman!'''"

Although Superman retains his super-powers in both identities and remains invulnerable to harm, the irrational fear and terror he experiences whenever he becomes Clark Kent represent a serious threat to his super-heroic career. Ultimately, however, Supergirl succeeds in curing him of the cowardice rayâ€™s effects. And when the villains return to Earth to bombard him with their ray again, Superman seizes their spacecraft and hurls it into "a far-distant galaxy" many light-years away, where the "outlaw vessel" is sure to be spotted and taken into custody by the "space police" (Act No. 322: "The Coward of Steel!").

Appearances: (as Superboy Revenge Squad) SB Nos. 94, 114, 118, NSB Nos. 32,54 (as Superman Revenge Squad) Act Nos. 286, 287, 295, 300, SPJO Nos. 163, 165, S Nos. 163, 165, Act No. 313, SGLL No. 52, SPJO No. 83, S No. 322, Act No. 343, S. No. 198, WF No. 175, Act Nos. 367, 380, 445, 501, S Nos. 366, 367, 368, DCCP 87, S No. 414

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Superman Revenge Squad

2005-03-13T03:08:00Z

Admiral Chew:

[[Image:Superman-Revenge-Squad.gif]]

A loosely knit organization of extraterrestrial villains, founded originally by the warlike inhabitants of the planet Wexr II but now comprised of aliens from many planets, who have for years, ever since [[Superman]] was a teen-ager, sought to wreak vengeance on the Man of Steel in retaliation for having repeatedly thwarted their attempts to subjugate peaceful planets and "dominate the universe" (Act No 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!"; and others). In the words of one Squad member:

We of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' have tried for
decades to get even with '''Superman'''! We have hated him
ever since, as '''Superboy''', he stopped [us] from conquer-
ing peaceful planets in outer space! Our squad has tried
to destroy him many times--but we've always failed! [Act
No. 295, Dec 1962 "Superman Goes Wild!"].

The Members of the Superman Revenge Squad are fully aware the Clark Kent is secretly Superman (Act No. 286, March 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!" and others).

In March 1962 members of the Superman Revenge Squad set in motion an elaborate scheme to wreak vengeance on Superman by destroying the Earth (Act No 286: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!"). "Only when his beloved Earth lies in smoking ruins," snarls their leader, a blue skinned alien named Rava, "will he realize that we have finally repaid him for wrecking all our plans to dominate the universe!" (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

The first phase of the villains' scheme involves surreptitiously exposing Superman to a variety of red [[kryptonite]] whose effect they know, from having previously tested the substance on [[Krypto the Superdog]], will be to make Superman experience terrifying nightmares set in the future. In one such nightmare, for example, Superman dreams that, in the distant future, the great-great-great-great-grandson of [[Pete Ross]] and the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Lana Lang]] are husband and wife, and that they attempt to destroy him by overexposure to green kryptonite. The nightmares are frightening and deeply disturbing, but after having deduced that they are being caused by exposure to red kryptonite, Superman reasons that the nightmares are, after all, only harmless fantasies and that the effects of the red kryptonite will soon wear off (Act No. 286, Mar 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!")

It is then, however, that the Superman Revenge Squad initiates phase two of its scheme: the invasion of [[Metropolis]] by an army of extraterrestrial robots which shoot "jets of deadly anti-chlorophyll acid at the ground, converting the earth into a crawling blight that will spread like wildfire till not a blade of grass is left!" "Then," gloat the villains, "all humanity will starve to death!"

At first, as the ruthless extraterrestrial aliens had correctly anticipated, Superman assumes that the deadly robot invasion is merely another of his recurring red-kryptonite-induced nightmares. Ultimately, however, he realizes that the robot invasion is real and destroys the alien robots before they can overrun the Earth.

"Curse '''Superman'''!" mutters Rava angrily to his comrades, hovering high above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft. "He's foiled us again!" But we of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' will never give up hope! Some day we will execute the perfect revenge against '''Superman'''! (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

In December 1962 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad set of to "wreak a vengeance on Superman that is worse that death" by transforming him "from a hero beloved by all...into the most feared and hated person on Earth!" Hovering just outside Earth's atmosphere in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, the aliens employ a "telepathic signal gun"--a diabolical "telepathic-hypnotic weapon" which is specifically "tuned to Superman's brain"--to bombard Superman's mind with a series of powerful "hypnotic commands" which the Man of Steel is powerless to disobey.

Under the baleful influence of the aliens' fiendish weapon, Superman embarks on a rampage of insanely destructive acts, demolishing the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]], the [[Sphinx]], and the [[Eiffel Tower]]; denouncing the United Nations on a television program devoted to the cause of international goodwill; maliciously shoving the [[moon]] out of its proper orbit, causing massive tidal waves on the Earth's surface and an undersea disaster in [[Atlantis]]. Confident that they will succeed in their scheme to "humiliate Superman beyond his endurance" by forcing him to commit acts of destruction "that will disgrace him forever," the villains even go so far as to communicate with Superman by means of "a hypnotic-telepathic beam that penetrates [his] mind," informing him exactly what they have been doing to him and gloating over their ability to "compel him to do anything we want!" Indeed, before long, the villains have made Superman the most despised man on Earth.

Fortunately for Superman, however, the aliens periodically "turn off the telepathic beam and let Superman regain his sanity for a brief time" so that they can force him to endure the painful humiliation of being hated by almost everyone on earth. It is during one of these periods on metal lucidity, while he is no longer under the baleful control of the villains' telepathic signal gun, that Superman enlists the aid of Perry White in a ruse designed to throw the Superman Revenge Squad members off their guard long enough for the [[Superman Emergency Squad]] to apprehend them. By and large, the ruse succeeds, but as the Superman Emergency Squad closes in on the aliens' spacecraft, the villains blow themselves and their craft to smithereens rather than submit to capture (Act No. 295: "Superman Goes Wild!").

In May 1963 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, piloting their flying-saucerlike spacecraft at such "incredible velocity" that it hurtles across the time barrier, cunningly lure Superman into perusing them into the distant future, to the vicinity of [[Metropolis]] one million years from now. In this far-future ear, when Earth's sun is no longer yellow, but red, Superman realizes, to his horror, that he has completely lost his super-powers. "The sun...it's '''red''' now not yellow!" muses Superman ruefully as the villains soar away gloating in their spacecraft, confident that they have lured Superman into a deathtrap from which he cannot possible escape. "In this far future [era], Earthâ€™s sun has become red as suns usually do as they get old! But...but...but under a red sun, like that of perished '''Krypton''', I have no super-powers! Only the rays of a yellow sun give me powers!"

Stranded without his super-powers in the world of the far, far, future, at a time when the Earth is a barren wasteland devoid of water and all that is left of the human race has long since migrated to more hospitable planets, Superman is literally "the last man on Earth," alone except for the weird creatures that have managed to adapt to a life without water. The only remaining vestiges of humanity are a half dozen lifelike androids of Superman's old friends and adversaries that were created by the people of the distant future to "march like real people in each year's Superman Commemoration Parade."

"What a mockery," sighs Superman dejectedly, "--I'm the last man on Earth with only androids of my past comrades for company! And I'll never escape from this dead world!"

Ultimately, however, after a perilous and arduous journey, Superman finally reaches the ruins of his [[Fortress of Solitude]], clambering up the face of the jagged rock cliff and entering the Fortress through the massive keyhole. Inside the Fortress, after reducing himself to lilliputian size with the aid of a sample of red krpytonite that he knows will render him temporarily tiny, Superman climbs aboard a Kandorian (''see'' [[Kandor]]) rocket ship and skillfully pilots back across the time barrier to the city of Metropolis in the year 1963. Once retuned to the yellow-sun environment of the twentieth-century Earth, Superman finds his super-powers restored to him, and once the effects of the red kryptonite have worn off, the Man of Steel returns to his normal size. "Will Earth really be like a million years from now?" wonders Superman. "Or was that only one of many possible futures? I may never know--but I hope I'm never again the last man on Earth!" (Act No. 300: ""Superman Under the Red Sun!").

By August 1963 several members of the Superman Revenge Squad have set in motion an intricately convoluted scheme to destroy Superman. To lay the groundwork for their complex scheme, the villains deliberately caused an "accident" in outer space in which [[Ajax]], one of Superman's own [[Superman robots]], was seriously damaged by a hurtling meteor. Taking the mortally injured robot aboard their spacecraft, the villains, feigning friendship, performed a delicate operation that transferred Ajax's super-sophisticated robot mind out of its robot body and into a "chemically-made android body" that is utterly lifelike.

"Our science," explained one of the aliens to Ajax, "enables us to take only the '''contents''' of your mind and transfer them to the brain of this chemically-made '''android''' body...which has super-powers! You talked during your come and we learned that you were a robot-servant of '''Superman''' on Earth! But now that you are a person, you need not be a servant!"

"Why, that's right," exclaimed Ajax happily as he surveyed his unbelievably lifelike synthetic body, a body capable of human thought and human emotion, "...'''Superman''' was my master, but now I have no master!"

Overjoyed at the prospect of living out the remainder of his life as a true human being, Ajax could hardly wait to return to Earth to embark on a super-heroic career independent of Superman, The aliens renamed him [[Wonder-Man]] and provided him with a colorful new costume "made of super-durable fabric." Warning him that Superman would be resentful of his new independence, they gave him a chunk of green kryptonite--harmless to Wonder-Man but potentially fatal to Superman--which he could use as a weapon against the Man of Steel in the event he attempted to interfere with Wonder-Man's super-heroic career.

Hovering outside the aliens' spacecraft preparatory to returning to Earth, however, Wonder-Man overheard the villains gloating over their plan. Their real motive in "helping" him, he learned, was to create a rival for Superman in the hope that this rivalry would result in a violent conflict between the two heroes in which Superman would be destroyed. Wonder-Man also learned that the villains had deliberately endowed him with a defective android body, thereby assuring his demise within the space of several days.

And so, having overheard the scheme, Wonder-Man returns to Metropolis, where he performs a series of stunning super-feats that soon have him eclipsing Superman as the city's foremost hero. "...in the days that follow, '''Superman''' becomes half-forgotten and '''Metropolis''' honors '''Wonder-Man''' as its new hero!" Wonder-Man even goes so far as to make romantic overtures to [[Lois Lane]] and to dispossess Superman from his Fortress of Solitude, In the inevitable confrontation that follows, Superman falls helpless to the ground, half-paralyzed by the baleful radiations emanating from Wonder-Man's chunk of green kryptonite. "Well, '''Superman''', I've won our duel," sneers Wonder-Man, "...and I'm leaving you here with the kryptonite to keep you immobile...until you die from its deadly rays!"

No sooner has Wonder-Man departed that the Superman Revenge Squad members arrive on the scene in their spacecraft and begin to gloat over the fallen Superman. Wonder-Man's rivalry with Superman and the violent confrontation it provoked, however, were only part of Wonder-Man's own plan for luring the villains into the open where they could be easily apprehended. Streaking back to the scene, he hurls the debilitating green kryptonite far into outer space, and, when the villains attempt to flee in their spacecraft, he and Superman seize the craft and hurl in light-years away into the interstellar void. "Itâ€™ll be years...years of prison in the ship," observes Superman, "...before they can brake impetus of our mighty throw!"

Superman had already deduced that Wonder-Man was once a Superman robot and the his pretended ruthlessness was only a ploy to trap the villains. Now he proposes to reveal the true story of Wonder-Man's heroism to the world and to form an enduring super-heroic partnership with his former robot. But already Wonder-Man's time has run out, and he collapses, mortally stricken, in Supermanâ€™s arms. "It has been wonderful to be human, even for a little while," whispers Wonder-Man, "...to have felt, thought and loved! Goodbye...'''Superman''', my master..."

"Not your master now, '''Wonder-Man'''!" replies Superman gently. "You die as you lived, as a human being and as my frined!" (S No. 163/1: "Wonder-Man, the New Hero of Metropolis

In November 1963 Saturn Woman (''see'' [[Saturn Girl]]) becomes Superman's ally in an elaborate, and ultimately successful, ruse designed to prevent three members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering over Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, from learning the true effects of the diabolical "counter-energy ray" they recently fired as Superman, i.e., its ability to prevent Superman from exercising any of his super-powers except while he is upside down. The ruse, in which Saturn Woman, posing as the enchantress [[Circe]], pretends to force Superman to carry out a series of menial, humiliating tasks--ostensibly in retaliation for his having once spurned her love--by threatening to use her magical powers to turn the Man of Steel into an animal if he fails to carry out his everyday tasks in an upside-down position until such time as the effects of the villains' counter-energy ray have worn off and the Superman Revenge Squad members have fled into outer space, convinced that their weapon has had no effect whatever on Superman (S No. 165/1: pts. I-II--"Beauty and the Super-Beast!"; "Circe's Super-Slave"). This story is in many respects similar to Action Comics No. 204 (May 1955: "The Man Who Could Make Superman Do Anything!". (''See'' [[Spulby, Sam]].)

By June 1964 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad--one of them known as the Android Master--have kidnapped [[Batman]], Lois Lane, [[Lori Lemaris]], [[Jimmy Olsen]], and [[Perry White]] and replaced them with lifelike android imposters as part of an elaborate scheme to torment Superman and destroy his morale by making him believe that his closest friends have inexplicably turned against him, learning the secret of his dual identity, for example, and then demanding blackmail in exchange for their silence. Demoralized, for a time, at having been betrayed by his best friends, Superman eventually comes to realize that his friends are being impersonated by lifelike androids. Before long, [[Supergirl]] has rescued his real friends from the cave beneath Metropolis where they have been imprisoned in a state of suspended animation, and the members of the Superman Revenge Squad, their scheme to break Supermanâ€™s spirit thwarted, flee defeated into outer space (Act No. 313: â€œThe End of Clark Kentâ€™s Secret Identity!â€).

Appearances: (as Superboy Revenge Squad) SB Nos. 94, 114, 118, NSB Nos. 32,54 (as Superman Revenge Squad) Act Nos. 286, 287, 295, 300, SPJO Nos. 163, 165, S Nos. 163, 165, Act No. 313, SGLL No. 52, SPJO No. 83, S No. 322, Act No. 343, S. No. 198, WF No. 175, Act Nos. 367, 380, 445, 501, S Nos. 366, 367, 368, DCCP 87, S No. 414

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Louis Lane

2005-03-12T18:48:22Z

Admiral Chew:

[[Lois Lane]]'s cousin from Pittsdale. (S No. 349: "The Turnabout Trap!")

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Mr. Mxyzptlk

2005-03-12T18:46:24Z

Admiral Chew: added description of ONE Mxy story. No overview and no other stories

In July 1980 [[Superman]] returns from an interstellar mission to discover that the world he knew has been replaced by one in which everyone has been replaced with a counterpart of the opposite gender. Instead of a female [[Lois Lane]] this world's [[Daily Planet]] has a male reporter names Loius Lane. Instead of [[Jimmy Olsen]] there is Jenny Olsen. [[Wonder Woman]] is replaced by Wonder Warrior and so on. And the greatest hero on this world is Superwoman. There is also a Clara Kent who stragely is not the same person as Superwoman. In fact unlike her male counterpart in the real world, Clark Kent, Clara Kent is just an ordinary person.

Based on this fact as well as the fact that a file on Superwoman's enemies showed a male Mxyzptlk allowed [[Superman]] to deduce that Mxyzptlk was behind this madbness. Mxyzptlk was too vain to alter himself in any way so even in this world of reversed genders he was still male and Superwoman and Clara Kent were different people because Mxyzptlk was, inspite of his incredible powers, unaware that Superman and Clark Kent were one and the same.

When [[Superman]] confronts Mxyzptlk, he uses the magic lasso he took from Wonder Warrior to force Mxyzptlk to say his name backwards causing him to return to the 5th dimension and undoing his spell over the earth. When Superman returns to the [[Daily Planet]], he is shocked to see [[Loius Lane]], but it is not the same Loius Lane from the gender reversed earth: It's Lois's cousin from Pittsdale. (S No. 349: "The Turnabout Trap!")

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Joseph J. Jerome

2005-03-12T17:10:21Z

Admiral Chew:

A man who spent twenty-five years on a desert island with only animals as companions. He would spend his days telling stories of [[Superman]] to the animals, but amazingly the man was unaware that [[Superman]] was in fact real or that the stories which he told were the actual exploits of the Man of Steel. In May 1975 "Joey" Jerome is telling his animal friends of [[Superman]]'s effort to disarm a "solar bomb" unware that as his story unfolds the events he describes are actually unfolding nearby. When [[Superman]] stumbles upon Jerome on his island, Jerome exclaims, "'''[[Superman]]'''! But you're a figment of '''my imagination!''' You don't really exist." Once [[Superman]] learns of Jerome's amazing ability to tell his adventures as they happen he ask Jerome to resume his story and tell the animals how he deals with the bomb. As Jerome continues his tale Superman flies off and carries out his actions just as Jerome describes them as he first prevents a swarm of navy jets from detonating the bomb in a misguided attempt to destroy it and then draws the bombs across the time barrier before it detonates.

Jerome who had originally chosen to live on the island decides it is time to return to civilization. After and interview with Clark Kent, [[Superman]]'s alter-ego, Kent theorizes to Jerome:
It may be that your unconscious mind is closely
"tuned in" with the progress of events so that you
have the ability to '''figure out''' what will happen next
on earth from what's happened '''already!''' Take the fact
that you knew about '''[[Superman]]'''--even though you were
lost before he made himself known--there were reports
of a '''Superbaby''' 25 years ago--just like reports of
flying saucers today--! You just '''realized''' the baby
would one day grow to be a man and go public!
Superman then arranges a new job for Joey telling stories to children at a children's zoo where he is billed as "Uncle Joey Jerome World's Greatest Storyteller." (Act No. 447: "The Man Who Created Superman!")

Note: The name Joseph Jerome is a combination of the names of Superman's creators '''Joseph''' Shuster and '''Jerome''' Siegle

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Joseph J. Jerome

2005-03-12T17:02:48Z

Admiral Chew:

A man who spent twenty-five years on a desert island with only animals as companions. He would spend his days telling stories of [[Superman]] to the animals, but amazingly the man was unaware that [[Superman]] was in fact real or that the stories which he told were the actual exploits of the Man of Steel. In May 1975 "Joey" Jerome is telling his animal friends of [[Superman]]'s effort to disarm a "solar bomb" unware that as his story unfolds the events he describes are actually unfolding nearby. When [[Superman]] stumbles upon Jerome on his island, Jerome exclaims, "'''[[Superman]]'''! But you're a figment of '''my imagination!''' You don't really exist." Once [[Superman]] learns of Jerome's amazing ability to tell his adventures as they happen he ask Jerome to resume his story and tell the animals how he deals with the bomb. As Jerome continues his tale Superman flies off and carries out his actions just as Jerome describes them as he first prevents a swarm of navy jets from detonating the bomb in a misguided attempt to destroy it and then draws the bombs across the time barrier before it detonates.

Jerome who had originally chosen to live on the island decides it is time to return to civilization. After and interview with Clark Kent, [[Superman]]'s alter-ego, Kent theorizes to Jerome:
It may be that your unconscious mind is closely
"tuned in" with the progress of events so that you
have the ability to '''figure out''' what will happen next
on earth from what's happened '''already!''' Take the fact
that you knew about '''[[Superman]]'''--even though you were
lost before he made himself known--there were reports
of a '''Superbaby''' 25 years ago--just like reports of
flying saucers today--! You just '''realized''' the baby
would one day grow to be a man and go public!
(Act No. 447: "The Man Who Created Superman!")

Note: The name Joseph Jerome is a combination of the names of Superman's creators '''Joseph''' Shuster and '''Jerome''' Siegle

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Gotham City

2005-03-12T16:10:37Z

Admiral Chew:

'''Gotham City'''

The sister city to [[Metropolis]].
Home of it's protectors, [[Batman]] and [[Robin]], as well as Commisoner [[James Gordon]].

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Microwave Man

2005-03-12T16:07:35Z

Admiral Chew:

A man named Lewis Padgett who returned to earth as an old man in October 1980 after forty years of space travel aboard an alien spacecraft. Before he left the earth Padgett had been the coustumed villain Mircowave Man. Upon his return Padgett calls upon his alien friends to grant him his youth back even though it would shorten his remaining life to only a few hours.

Once he is young, Padgett once again assumes the identity of Microwave Man and challenges [[Superman]]. The aliens inform Superman that Padgett only wants the glory of defeating him and will soon die. [[Superman]] allow Padgett to defeat him in a test of strength after which Padgett dies satisfied and the aliens claim his body to set adrift if space as he had requested. (Act No. 488: "Superman Battles Microwave Man!"

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Tala

2005-03-12T15:42:22Z

Admiral Chew:

== Queen of Darkness ==
Mysterious villainess whose origin and nature are as shrouded in mystery as those of her foe the [[Phantom Stranger]]. She tried to gain possession of [[Superman]]'s soul in September 1980. (DCCP No. 25: "Judgment Night").

First appearance: Phantom Stranger (Volume 2) #4, November-December 1969: "There Is Laughter in Hell This Day"

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Tala

2005-03-12T15:40:51Z

Admiral Chew:

== Queen of Darkness ==
Mysterious villainess whose origin and nature are as shrouded in mystery as those of her foe the [[Phantom Stranger]]. She tried to gain possession of [[Superman]]'s soul in September 1980. (DCCP No. 25: "Judgment Night").

First appearance: Phantom Stranger (Volume 2) #4., November-December 1969: "There Is Laughter in Hell This Day"

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Tala

2005-03-12T15:38:49Z

Admiral Chew:

Mysterious villainess whose origin and nature are as shrouded in mystery as those of her foe the [[Phantom Stranger]]. She tried to gain possession of [[Superman]]'s soul in September 1980. (DCCP No. 25: "Judgment Night").

First appearance: Phantom Stranger (Volume 2) #4., November-December 1969: "There Is Laughter in Hell This Day"

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Saturn Woman

2005-03-12T14:35:44Z

Admiral Chew: fixed spelling of lightning man

'''Saturn Woman'''
Real name Imra Ardeen

The adult [[Saturn Girl]] who is a founding member of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]]. She is wed to long time beau, [[Lightning Man]], the former [[Lightning Lad]] and is a member of the [[Adult Legion of Super-Heroes]]. Her powers include telepathy and super-thought casting.

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Streaky

2005-03-12T14:26:57Z

Admiral Chew: added sub-head. Thought we might do sub-heads like this for character that have a description that often follow their name like 'The Man of Steel" or "the Super horse". opinions?

== The Super-Cat ==

A mischievous feline pet of Linda Lee Danvers [[Supergirl]], Streaky has on-again, off-again super-powers due to exposure to [[Kryptonite X]] (a failed [[Kryptonite]] antidote attempt by Supergirl).

Streaky is a member of the [[Legion of Super-Pets]].

His 30th Century descendant is named [[Whizzy]].

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Phantom Stranger

2005-03-12T13:58:07Z

Admiral Chew:

A mysterious and extremely powerful idividual always clad in a drak blue suit with matching cape and hat and wearing a gold medalion on a chain aorund his neck. His origin is shrouded and mystery and the source of his powers and his motivation are unknown. He has assisted [[Superman]], the [[Justice League of America]], and other heroes on mumerous occasions.

In February 1980, the Phantom Strange mysteriously intervenes in [[Superman]]'s battle with [[Dracula]] and causes both [[Dracula]] and his servant Frankenstein's Monster to be wisk away to a place he describes only as "nightmare." (S 344: "The Monsters Among Us!")

Later that year in September the Phantom Starnger again meets [[Superman]] when [[Superman]] is experiencing painful attacks brought on by the magic of Madame Benita who is working on behalf of [[Pete Ross]], Superman's childhood friend, to torture [[Superman]]. Ross who has long known and protected [[Superman]]'s secret identity had turned against the Man of Steel when he refused to bring Ross's son, Jon, back from the planet Nyrvn. [[Superman]] had refused to rescue Jon because the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] had told him that Jon was destined to one day lead an alien starfleet and save the earth, and that returning Jon to earth would doom the entire planet.

When the Phantom Stranger confronts Madame Benita he becomes locked in an spiritual battle with the demonic [[Tala]] who has been using Benita, Pete, and another man who stole tokens from the [[Superman Museum]] for Benita's spells in her plot to trap [[Superman]]'s soul. For their deeds [[Tala]] believes that she already has the souls of Benita and the thief and soon she will have [[Pete Ross]]'s soul, and [[Superman]] who is vulnerable to her magic because of his guilt over failing Jon and Pete will soon be her as well.

But while the Phantom Stranger and [[Tala]] engage in their primal battle, [[Superman]] has a change of heart and goes to Nyrvn to retreive Jon saying to Jon, "Maybe you'll come '''back''' to Nyrvn '''someday''', to become that '''great hero''' the legionnaires say you're destined to be." Once Jon is runited with his father, [[Tala]'s "hold on [[Superman]] is broken--and with it [her] hold over" the others as well.

[[Tala]] then vanishes giving the Phantom Stranger this parting threat:
It is you '''doom''' to place yourself between me
and these poor, pitiable mortal fools, and one day
they shall '''disappoint''' you and on the day you are
'''mine'''!
The Phantom Strange calmy responds, "No Queen of Darkness that day shall '''never dawn'''." (DCCP No. 25: "Judgment Night").

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Phantom Stranger

2005-03-12T13:56:40Z

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A mysterious and extremely powerful idividual always clad in a drak blue suit with matching cape and hat and wearing a gold medalion on a chain aorund his neck. His origin is shrouded and mystery and the source of his powers and his motivation are unknown. He has assisted [[Superman]], the [[Justice League of America]], and other heroes on mumerous occasions.

In February 1980, the Phantom Strange mysteriously intervenes in [[Superman]]'s battle with [[Dracula]] and causes both [[Dracula]] and his servant Frankenstein's Monster to be wisk away to a place he describes only as "nightmare." (S 344: "The Monsters Among Us!")

Later that year in September the Phantom Starnger again meets [[Superman]] when [[Superman]] is experiencing painful attacks brought on by the magic of Madame Benita who is working on behalf of [[Pete Ross]], Superman's childhood friend, to torture [[Superman]]. Ross who has long known and protected [[Superman]]'s secret identity had turned against the Man of Steel when he refused to bring Ross's son, Jon, back from the planet Nyrvn. [[Superman]] had refused to rescue Jon because the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] had told him that Jon was destined to one day lead an alien starfleet and save the earth, and that returning Jon to earth would doom the entire planet.

When the Phantom Stranger confronts Madame Benita he becomes locked in an spiritual battle with the demonic [[Tala]] who has been using Benita, Pete, and another man who stole tokens from the [[Superman Museum]] for Benita's spells in her plot to trap [[Supeman]]'s soul. For their deeds [[Tala]] believes that she already has the souls of Benita and the thief and soon she will have [[Pete Ross]]'s soul, and [[Superman]] who is vulnerable to her magic because of his guilt over failing Jon and Pete will soon be her as well.

But while the Phantom Stranger and [[Tala]] engage in their primal battle, [[Superman]] has a change of heart and goes to Nyrvn to retreive Jon saying to Jon, "Maybe you'll come '''back''' to Nyrvn '''someday''', to become that '''great hero''' the legionnaires say you're destined to be." Once Jon is runited with his father, [[Tala]'s "hold on [[Superman]] is broken--and with it [her] hold over" the others as well.

[[Tala]] then vanishes giving the Phantom Stranger this parting threat:
It is you '''doom''' to place yourself between me
and these poor, pitiable mortal fools, and one day
they shall '''disappoint''' you and on the day you are
'''mine'''!
The Phantom Strange calmy responds, "No Queen of Darkness that day shall '''never dawn'''." (DCCP No. 25: "Judgment Night").

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Tonn

2005-03-12T05:20:16Z

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A woman who according to a [[Kryptonian]] legend became the mother of the entire [[Kryptonian]] race when she became stranded on [[Krypton]] where she encoutered a man named [[Kryp]] after he also become stranded on the planet. (S 238/2, June 1971: "A Name is Born").

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Tonn

2005-03-12T05:19:44Z

Admiral Chew:

Kryp

2005-03-12T05:18:23Z

Admiral Chew:

A man who according to a [[Kryptonian]] legend became the father of the entire [[Kryptonian]] race when he became stranded on [[Krypton]] where he encoutered a woman named [[Tonn]] who had alse become stranded on the planet. (S 238/2, June 1971: "A Name is Born").

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Kryp

2005-03-12T05:17:59Z

Admiral Chew:

Kryp

2005-03-12T05:17:04Z

Admiral Chew:

Surrus

2005-03-12T05:10:39Z

Admiral Chew: added two more categories

A city on a southern continent of [[Krypton]] named for the flowers that grew there: the Surrus Blossoms. As [[Superman]] explains to [[Green Lantern]] and [[Black Canary]] in April 1971:

These plants could sing... made the most beautiful
music anyone had ever heard! The living was easy, and
the citizens spent most of their waking hours simply...
'''listening'''.

Twelve years before the destruction of Krypton a renowned scientist in Surrus, Doctor [[Mo-De]], discovered, "great tensions are building in the core of '''Krypton'''!--Tensions which could end in an '''explosion''' that will destroy everything!" But the people of Surrus were so mesmerized by the music of the flowers that they did not listen to [[Mo-De]]. When he tried to destory the flowers, the people locked him in a glass building surrounded by the flowers. When they released him, [[Mo-De]] no longer cared about [[Krypton]]'s impending doom and was content only to listen to the flowers. (S 236/2: "The Doomsayer!")

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Mo-De

2005-03-12T05:07:53Z

Admiral Chew:

A renowned [[Kryptonian]] scientist and doctor from the city of [[Surrus]] who discovers that [[Krypton]] is doomed to explode twelve years before the actual event. (''See'' [[Surrus]].)

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Surrus

2005-03-12T05:03:54Z

Admiral Chew:

Kryptonite

2005-03-12T04:33:12Z

Admiral Chew:

The term used to designate any surviving fragment of the exploded planet [[Krypton]], home world of [[Superman]]. These varieties of kryptonite are similarly hazardous to [[Supergirl]], [[Krypto|Krypto the Superdog]], [[Beppo|Beppo the Supermonkey]], and all other surviving natives of Krypton, unless otherwise noted. (edited and modified from TGSB)

Full list of every type of Kryptonite that has appeared in the chronicles is as follows:

0. '''K-Metal''': A prototype Kryptonite from the famous unpublished Golden Age Superman story by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster called "The K-Metal from Krypton!". It has the same weakening effect on kryptonians as Green Kryptonite, with the additional effect of temporarily granting tremendous strength and possibly other super-powers to normal non-powered people.

1. '''Green Kryptonite''': Green kryptonite, the only variety potentially fatal to Superman, induces lassitude and inertia followed by death if not removed in time from Superman's presence. (TGSB)

2. '''Red Kryptonite''': Red kryptonite inflicts bizarre and unpredictable—albeit temporary and nonfatal—symptoms, as when it divides Superman into twins or transforms him into an infant or a giant ant.(TGSB) It's effects last only 48 hours and is never repeated on the same Kryptonian again.

3. '''Gold Kryptonite''': Gold kryptonite would permanently rob Superman of his super-powers were he ever to be exposed to its radiations.(TGSB)

4. '''[[Blue Kryptonite]]''': Blue kryptonite is toxic only to [[Bizarro]] creatures.(TGSB)

5. '''White Kryptonite''': White kryptonite is harmful only to plant life.(TGSB)

6. '''Jewel Kryptonite''': 1st appeared in Act No. 310. Created by [[Jax-Ur]] of the [[Phantom Zone]]. "That chunk of Jewel K in orbit magnifies our mental commands and converts them into energy beams which detonate any explosive material we desire."

7. '''X-Kryptonite''': Accidentally created by [[Supergirl]], it gives [[Streaky]] the Supercat its super-powers.

8. '''Red-Green Kryptonite''': Red-Green Kryptonite 1st appeared in the story "The Menace of Red-Green Kryptonite!" in Act No. 275.

9. '''Anti-Kryptonite''': A freak type of Kryptonite which affects only non-super Kryptonians.

10. '''Slow Kryptonite''': Created by [[Metallo]]. It is "able to slow down the rate of particle emissions enough to affect humans as it does Kryptonians." B&B No. 175

11. '''Kryptonite-Plus''': 1st appeared in Act #350."a super-powerful isotope that will finish off [Kryptonians] in minutes".

12. '''Magno-Kryptonite''': 1st appeared in SPJO No. 92. Created by Truff, from the planet Pyron. "It [clings] with unbreakable force to anything that comes from Krypton".

13. '''Silver Kryptonite''': A fake Kryptonite created by [[Jimmy Olsen]] as a hoax for Superman's Silver Anniversary.

14. '''Yellow Kryptonite''': A synthetic Kryptonite created by [[Lex Luthor]] as a hoax to mentally torture Superman.

15. '''False Kryptonite''': Created by [[Supergirl]] using magic from a wishing well from a piece of Green Kryptonite, it is perfectly harmless.

16. '''Synthetic Kryptonite''': Synthetic versions of Green Kryptonite created in laboratories.

17. '''Mutated kryptonite''': A white card with a [[Kryptonian]] symbol on it used by the villain [[Zo-Mar]] was made from an unnamed form of mutated kryptonite that robbed any [[Kryptonian]] of his powers when he was very near it, but which was not otherwise harmful and had no permenant effect. (DCCP No. 84).

Whenever the word kryptonite appears in this encyclopedia without a specific color designation, it is green kryptonite, the most common variety, that is being referred to. (See [[Superman]] [ [[Superman#Kryptonite|section 7.1, kryptonite]] ].)

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Kryptonite

2005-03-12T04:32:25Z

Admiral Chew: added some links

The term used to designate any surviving fragment of the exploded planet [[Krypton]], home world of [[Superman]]. These varieties of kryptonite are similarly hazardous to [[Supergirl]], [[Krypto|Krypto the Superdog]], [[Beppo|Beppo the Supermonkey]], and all other surviving natives of Krypton, unless otherwise noted. (edited and modified from TGSB)

Full list of every type of Kryptonite that has appeared in the chronicles is as follows:

0. '''K-Metal''': A prototype Kryptonite from the famous unpublished Golden Age Superman story by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster called "The K-Metal from Krypton!". It has the same weakening effect on kryptonians as Green Kryptonite, with the additional effect of temporarily granting tremendous strength and possibly other super-powers to normal non-powered people.

1. '''Green Kryptonite''': Green kryptonite, the only variety potentially fatal to Superman, induces lassitude and inertia followed by death if not removed in time from Superman's presence. (TGSB)

2. '''Red Kryptonite''': Red kryptonite inflicts bizarre and unpredictable—albeit temporary and nonfatal—symptoms, as when it divides Superman into twins or transforms him into an infant or a giant ant.(TGSB) It's effects last only 48 hours and is never repeated on the same Kryptonian again.

3. '''Gold Kryptonite''': Gold kryptonite would permanently rob Superman of his super-powers were he ever to be exposed to its radiations.(TGSB)

4. '''[[Blue Kryptonite]]''': Blue kryptonite is toxic only to [[Bizarro]] creatures.(TGSB)

5. '''White Kryptonite''': White kryptonite is harmful only to plant life.(TGSB)

6. '''Jewel Kryptonite''': 1st appeared in Act No. 310. Created by [[Jax-Ur]] of the [[Phantom Zone]]. "That chunk of Jewel K in orbit magnifies our mental commands and converts them into energy beams which detonate any explosive material we desire."

7. '''X-Kryptonite''': Accidentally created by [[Supergirl]], it gives [[Streaky the Supercat]] its Superpowers.

8. '''Red-Green Kryptonite''': Red-Green Kryptonite 1st appeared in the story "The Menace of Red-Green Kryptonite!" in Act No. 275.

9. '''Anti-Kryptonite''': A freak type of Kryptonite which affects only non-super Kryptonians.

10. '''Slow Kryptonite''': Created by [[Metallo]]. It is "able to slow down the rate of particle emissions enough to affect humans as it does Kryptonians." B&B No. 175

11. '''Kryptonite-Plus''': 1st appeared in Act #350."a super-powerful isotope that will finish off [Kryptonians] in minutes".

12. '''Magno-Kryptonite''': 1st appeared in SPJO No. 92. Created by Truff, from the planet Pyron. "It [clings] with unbreakable force to anything that comes from Krypton".

13. '''Silver Kryptonite''': A fake Kryptonite created by [[Jimmy Olsen]] as a hoax for Superman's Silver Anniversary.

14. '''Yellow Kryptonite''': A synthetic Kryptonite created by [[Lex Luthor]] as a hoax to mentally torture Superman.

15. '''False Kryptonite''': Created by [[Supergirl]] using magic from a wishing well from a piece of Green Kryptonite, it is perfectly harmless.

16. '''Synthetic Kryptonite''': Synthetic versions of Green Kryptonite created in laboratories.

17. '''Mutated kryptonite''': A white card with a [[Kryptonian]] symbol on it used by the villain [[Zo-Mar]] was made from an unnamed form of mutated kryptonite that robbed any [[Kryptonian]] of his powers when he was very near it, but which was not otherwise harmful and had no permenant effect. (DCCP No. 84).

Whenever the word kryptonite appears in this encyclopedia without a specific color designation, it is green kryptonite, the most common variety, that is being referred to. (See [[Superman]] [ [[Superman#Kryptonite|section 7.1, kryptonite]] ].)

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Category talk:People

2005-03-12T04:22:16Z

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General Zod

2005-03-12T04:16:18Z

Admiral Chew: added mention of Zod's promotion from DDCP 84

[[Image:Zod.gif|right]]
aka '''Dru-Zod (General)'''

Kryptonian general who, prior to the destruction of the planet [[Krypton]], used a duplicator ray to create a private army of imperfect duplicate robots to assist him in his attempt to overthrow the government of Krypton and make himself dictator. (Adv No. 283/1, Apr 1961: "The Phantom Superboy!")

Zod earned his promotion to General for preventing [[Zo-Mar]] from taking Fort Rozz and enslaving [[Krypton]]. (DCCP No. 84, Auf 1984: "Give Me Power... Give Me Your World!")

While still the Military Director (S No. 233/2, Jan 1971: "Jor-El's Golden Folly!") of "the Kryptonian Space Center," Zod met a promising young scientist named [[Jor-El]], not yet father of [[Superman]], who was just joining the staff. General Zod welcomed him with, "A young man with your talents can make quite a name for himself in rocketry!" (WK No. 1, Jul 1979: "The Jor-El Story!")

Presumably, his role at the Space Center was insufficient for the ambitious General, who decided to populate Krypton with emotionless robot duplicates of himself. Each of the duplicates "emerged from Zod's machine an imperfect duplicate of himself!" wanting to "...overthrow Krypton! Make General Zod dictator!"

After the failed attempt, the jury at his trial condemned Zod to spend 40 years in the [[Phantom Zone]] for his crimes (Adv No. 283/1: "The Phantom Superboy!").

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Superman Revenge Squad

2005-03-12T04:04:11Z

Admiral Chew:

[[Image:Superman-Revenge-Squad.gif]]

A loosely knit organization of extraterrestrial villains, founded originally by the warlike inhabitants of the planet Wexr II but now comprised of aliens from many planets, who have for years, ever since [[Superman]] was a teen-ager, sought to wreak vengeance on the Man of Steel in retaliation for having repeatedly thwarted their attempts to subjugate peaceful planets and "dominate the universe" (Act No 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!"; and others). In the words of one Squad member:

We of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' have tried for
decades to get even with '''Superman'''! We have hated him
ever since, as '''Superboy''', he stopped [us] from conquer-
ing peaceful planets in outer space! Our squad has tried
to destroy him many times--but we've always failed! [Act
No. 295, Dec 1962 "Superman Goes Wild!"].

The Members of the Superman Revenge Squad are fully aware the Clark Kent is secretly Superman (Act No. 286, March 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!" and others).

In March 1962 members of the Superman Revenge Squad set in motion an elaborate scheme to wreak vengeance on Superman by destroying the Earth (Act No 286: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!"). "Only when his beloved Earth lies in smoking ruins," snarls their leader, a blue skinned alien named Rava, "will he realize that we have finally repaid him for wrecking all our plans to dominate the universe!" (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

The first phase of the villains' scheme involves surreptitiously exposing Superman to a variety of red [[kryptonite]] whose effect they know, from having previously tested the substance on [[Krypto the Superdog]], will be to make Superman experience terrifying nightmares set in the future. In one such nightmare, for example, Superman dreams that, in the distant future, the great-great-great-great-grandson of [[Pete Ross]] and the great-great-great-granddaughter of [[Lana Lang]] are husband and wife, and that they attempt to destroy him by overexposure to green kryptonite. The nightmares are frightening and deeply disturbing, but after having deduced that they are being caused by exposure to red kryptonite, Superman reasons that the nightmares are, after all, only harmless fantasies and that the effects of the red kryptonite will soon wear off (Act No. 286, Mar 1962: "The Jury of Super-Enemies!")

It is then, however, that the Superman Revenge Squad initiates phase two of its scheme: the invasion of [[Metropolis]] by an army of extraterrestrial robots which shoot "jets of deadly anti-chlorophyll acid at the ground, converting the earth into a crawling blight that will spread like wildfire till not a blade of grass is left!" "Then," gloat the villains, "all humanity will starve to death!"

At first, as the ruthless extraterrestrial aliens had correctly anticipated, Superman assumes that the deadly robot invasion is merely another of his recurring red-kryptonite-induced nightmares. Ultimately, however, he realizes that the robot invasion is real and destroys the alien robots before they can overrun the Earth.

"Curse '''Superman'''!" mutters Rava angrily to his comrades, hovering high above the Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft. "He's foiled us again!" But we of the '''Superman Revenge Squad''' will never give up hope! Some day we will execute the perfect revenge against '''Superman'''! (Act No. 287, Apr 1962: "Perry White's Manhunt for Superman!").

In December 1962 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad set of to "wreak a vengeance on Superman that is worse that death" by transforming him "from a hero beloved by all...into the most feared and hated person on Earth!" Hovering just outside Earth's atmosphere in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, the aliens employ a "telepathic signal gun"--a diabolical "telepathic-hypnotic weapon" which is specifically "tuned to Superman's brain"--to bombard Superman's mind with a series of powerful "hypnotic commands" which the Man of Steel is powerless to disobey.

Under the baleful influence of the aliens' fiendish weapon, Superman embarks on a rampage of insanely destructive acts, demolishing the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]], the [[Sphinx]], and the [[Eiffel Tower]]; denouncing the United Nations on a television program devoted to the cause of international goodwill; maliciously shoving the [[moon]] out of its proper orbit, causing massive tidal waves on the Earth's surface and an undersea disaster in [[Atlantis]]. Confident that they will succeed in their scheme to "humiliate Superman beyond his endurance" by forcing him to commit acts of destruction "that will disgrace him forever," the villains even go so far as to communicate with Superman by means of "a hypnotic-telepathic beam that penetrates [his] mind," informing him exactly what they have been doing to him and gloating over their ability to "compel him to do anything we want!" Indeed, before long, the villains have made Superman the most despised man on Earth.

Fortunately for Superman, however, the aliens periodically "turn off the telepathic beam and let Superman regain his sanity for a brief time" so that they can force him to endure the painful humiliation of being hated by almost everyone on earth. It is during one of these periods on metal lucidity, while he is no longer under the baleful control of the villains' telepathic signal gun, that Superman enlists the aid of Perry White in a ruse designed to throw the Superman Revenge Squad members off their guard long enough for the [[Superman Emergency Squad]] to apprehend them. By and large, the ruse succeeds, but as the Superman Emergency Squad closes in on the aliens' spacecraft, the villains blow themselves and their craft to smithereens rather than submit to capture (Act No. 295: "Superman Goes Wild!").

In May 1963 two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, piloting their flying-saucerlike spacecraft at such "incredible velocity" that it hurtles across the time barrier, cunningly lure Superman into perusing them into the distant future, to the vicinity of [[Metropolis]] one million years from now. In this far-future ear, when Earth's sun is no longer yellow, but red, Superman realizes, to his horror, that he has completely lost his super-powers. "The sun...it's '''red''' now not yellow!" muses Superman ruefully as the villains soar away gloating in their spacecraft, confident that they have lured Superman into a deathtrap from which he cannot possible escape. "In this far future [era], Earthâ€™s sun has become red as suns usually do as they get old! But...but...but under a red sun, like that of perished '''Krypton''', I have no super-powers! Only the rays of a yellow sun give me powers!"

Stranded without his super-powers in the world of the far, far, future, at a time when the Earth is a barren wasteland devoid of water and all that is left of the human race has long since migrated to more hospitable planets, Superman is literally "the last man on Earth," alone except for the weird creatures that have managed to adapt to a life without water. The only remaining vestiges of humanity are a half dozen lifelike androids of Superman's old friends and adversaries that were created by the people of the distant future to "march like real people in each year's Superman Commemoration Parade."

"What a mockery," sighs Superman dejectedly, "--I'm the last man on Earth with only androids of my past comrades for company! And I'll never escape from this dead world!"

Ultimately, however, after a perilous and arduous journey, Superman finally reaches the ruins of his [[Fortress of Solitude]], clambering up the face of the jagged rock cliff and entering the Fortress through the massive keyhole. Inside the Fortress, after reducing himself to lilliputian size with the aid of a sample of red krpytonite that he knows will render him temporarily tiny, Superman climbs aboard a Kandorian (''see'' [[Kandor]]) rocket ship and skillfully pilots back across the time barrier to the city of Metropolis in the year 1963. Once retuned to the yellow-sun environment of the twentieth-century Earth, Superman finds his super-powers restored to him, and once the effects of the red kryptonite have worn off, the Man of Steel returns to his normal size. "Will Earth really be like a million years from now?" wonders Superman. "Or was that only one of many possible futures? I may never know--but I hope I'm never again the last man on Earth!" (Act No. 300: ""Superman Under the Red Sun!").

By August 1963 several members of the Superman Revenge Squad have set in motion an intricately convoluted scheme to destroy Superman. To lay the groundwork for their complex scheme, the villains deliberately caused an "accident" in outer space in which [[Ajax]], one of Superman's own [[Superman robots]], was seriously damaged by a hurtling meteor. Taking the mortally injured robot aboard their spacecraft, the villains, feigning friendship, performed a delicate operation that transferred Ajax's super-sophisticated robot mind out of its robot body and into a "chemically-made android body" that is utterly lifelike.

"Our science," explained one of the aliens to Ajax, "enables us to take only the '''contents''' of your mind and transfer them to the brain of this chemically-made '''android''' body...which has super-powers! You talked during your come and we learned that you were a robot-servant of '''Superman''' on Earth! But now that you are a person, you need not be a servant!"

"Why, that's right," exclaimed Ajax happily as he surveyed his unbelievably lifelike synthetic body, a body capable of human thought and human emotion, "...'''Superman''' was my master, but now I have no master!"

Overjoyed at the prospect of living out the remainder of his life as a true human being, Ajax could hardly wait to return to Earth to embark on a super-heroic career independent of Superman, The aliens renamed him [[Wonder-Man]] and provided him with a colorful new costume "made of super-durable fabric." Warning him that Superman would be resentful of his new independence, they gave him a chunk of green kryptonite--harmless to Wonder-Man but potentially fatal to Superman--which he could use as a weapon against the Man of Steel in the event he attempted to interfere with Wonder-Man's super-heroic career.

Hovering outside the aliens' spacecraft preparatory to returning to Earth, however, Wonder-Man overheard the villains gloating over their plan. Their real motive in "helping" him, he learned, was to create a rival for Superman in the hope that this rivalry would result in a violent conflict between the two heroes in which Superman would be destroyed. Wonder-Man also learned that the villains had deliberately endowed him with a defective android body, thereby assuring his demise within the space of several days.

And so, having overheard the scheme, Wonder-Man returns to Metropolis, where he performs a series of stunning super-feats that soon have him eclipsing Superman as the city's foremost hero. "...in the days that follow, '''Superman''' becomes half-forgotten and '''Metropolis''' honors '''Wonder-Man''' as its new hero!" Wonder-Man even goes so far as to make romantic overtures to [[Lois Lane]] and to dispossess Superman from his Fortress of Solitude, In the inevitable confrontation that follows, Superman falls helpless to the ground, half-paralyzed by the baleful radiations emanating from Wonder-Man's chunk of green kryptonite. "Well, '''Superman''', I've won our duel," sneers Wonder-Man, "...and I'm leaving you here with the kryptonite to keep you immobile...until you die from its deadly rays!"

No sooner has Wonder-Man departed that the Superman Revenge Squad members arrive on the scene in their spacecraft and begin to gloat over the fallen Superman. Wonder-Man's rivalry with Superman and the violent confrontation it provoked, however, were only part of Wonder-Man's own plan for luring the villains into the open where they could be easily apprehended. Streaking back to the scene, he hurls the debilitating green kryptonite far into outer space, and, when the villains attempt to flee in their spacecraft, he and Superman seize the craft and hurl in light-years away into the interstellar void. "Itâ€™ll be years...years of prison in the ship," observes Superman, "...before they can brake impetus of our mighty throw!"

Superman had already deduced that Wonder-Man was once a Superman robot and the his pretended ruthlessness was only a ploy to trap the villains. Now he proposes to reveal the true story of Wonder-Man's heroism to the world and to form an enduring super-heroic partnership with his former robot. But already Wonder-Man's time has run out, and he collapses, mortally stricken, in Supermanâ€™s arms. "It has been wonderful to be human, even for a little while," whispers Wonder-Man, "...to have felt, thought and loved! Goodbye...'''Superman''', my master..."

"Not your master now, '''Wonder-Man'''!" replies Superman gently. "You die as you lived, as a human being and as my frined!" (S No. 163/1: "Wonder-Man, the New Hero of Metropolis

In November 1963 Saturn Woman (''see'' [[Saturn Girl]]) becomes Superman's ally in an elaborate, and ultimately successful, ruse designed to prevent three members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hovering over Earth in their flying-saucerlike spacecraft, from learning the true effects of the diabolical "counter-energy ray" they recently fired as Superman, i.e., its ability to prevent Superman from exercising any of his super-powers except while he is upside down. The ruse, in which Saturn Woman, posing as the enchantress [[Circe]], pretends to force Superman to carry out a series of menial, humiliating tasks--ostensibly in retaliation for his having once spurned her love--by threatening to use her magical powers to turn the Man of Steel into an animal if he fails to carry out his everyday tasks in an upside-down position until such time as the effects of the villains' counter-energy ray have worn off and the Superman Revenge Squad members have fled into outer space, convinced that their weapon has had no effect whatever on Superman (S No. 165/1: pts. I-II--"Beauty and the Super-Beast!"; "Circe's Super-Slave"). This story is in many respects similar to Action Comics No. 204 (May 1955: "The Man Who Could Make Superman Do Anything!". (''See'' [[Spulby, Sam]].)

Appearances: (as Superboy Revenge Squad) SB Nos. 94, 114, 118, NSB Nos. 32,54 (as Superman Revenge Squad) Act Nos. 286, 287, 295, 300, SPJO Nos. 163, 165, S Nos. 163, 165, Act No. 313, SGLL No. 52, SPJO No. 83, S No. 322, Act No. 343, S. No. 198, WF No. 175, Act Nos. 367, 380, 445, 501, S Nos. 366, 367, 368, DCCP 87, S No. 414

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Challengers of the Unknown

2005-03-12T03:45:23Z

Admiral Chew: added categories

Pilot Ace Morgan, mountain climber Red Ryan, boxer Rocky Davis, and Professor Haley who dedicated their lives to adventure and doing good. They assist [[Superman]] in his battle with [[Zo-Mar]]. (DCCP No. 84, August 1985, "Give Me Power... Gibe Me Your World!").

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Challengers of the Unknown

2005-03-12T03:42:15Z

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Challengers of the Unknown

2005-03-12T03:41:43Z

Admiral Chew: very brief

Pilot Ace Morgan, mountain climber Red Ryan, boxer Rocky Davis, and Professor Haley who dedicated their lives to adventure and doing good. They assist [[Superman]] in his battle with[[Zo-Mar]]. (DCCP No. 84, August 1985, "Give Me Power... Gibe Me Your World!").

Kryptonite

2005-03-12T03:24:32Z

Admiral Chew: added mutated kryptonite for DCCP 84

The term used to designate any surviving fragment of the exploded planet [[Krypton]], home world of [[Superman]]. These varieties of kryptonite are similarly hazardous to [[Supergirl]], [[Krypto|Krypto the Superdog]], [[Beppo|Beppo the Supermonkey]], and all other surviving natives of Krypton, unless otherwise noted. (edited and modified from TGSB)

Full list of every type of Kryptonite that has appeared in the chronicles is as follows:

0. '''K-Metal''': A prototype Kryptonite from the famous unpublished Golden Age Superman story by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster called "The K-Metal from Krypton!". It has the same weakening effect on kryptonians as Green Kryptonite, with the additional effect of temporarily granting tremendous strength and possibly other super-powers to normal non-powered people.

1. '''Green Kryptonite''': Green kryptonite, the only variety potentially fatal to Superman, induces lassitude and inertia followed by death if not removed in time from Superman's presence. (TGSB)

2. '''Red Kryptonite''': Red kryptonite inflicts bizarre and unpredictable—albeit temporary and nonfatal—symptoms, as when it divides Superman into twins or transforms him into an infant or a giant ant.(TGSB) It's effects last only 48 hours and is never repeated on the same Kryptonian again.

3. '''Gold Kryptonite''': Gold kryptonite would permanently rob Superman of his super-powers were he ever to be exposed to its radiations.(TGSB)

4. '''[[Blue Kryptonite]]''': Blue kryptonite is toxic only to Bizarro creatures.(TGSB)

5. '''White Kryptonite''': White kryptonite is harmful only to plant life.(TGSB)

6. '''Jewel Kryptonite''': 1st appeared in Act No. 310. Created by Jax-Ur of the Phantom Zone. "That chunk of Jewel K in orbit magnifies our mental commands and converts them into energy beams which detonate any explosive material we desire."

7. '''X-Kryptonite''': Accidentally created by Supergirl, it gives Streaky the Supercat its Superpowers.

8. '''Red-Green Kryptonite''': Red-Green Kryptonite 1st appeared in the story "The Menace of Red-Green Kryptonite!" in Act No. 275.

9. '''Anti-Kryptonite''': A freak type of Kryptonite which affects only non-super Kryptonians.

10. '''Slow Kryptonite''': Created by Metallo. It is "able to slow down the rate of particle emissions enough to affect humans as it does Kryptonians." B&B No. 175

11. '''Kryptonite-Plus''': 1st appeared in Act #350."a super-powerful isotope that will finish off [Kryptonians] in minutes".

12. '''Magno-Kryptonite''': 1st appeared in SPJO No. 92. Created by Truff, from the planet Pyron. "It [clings] with unbreakable force to anything that comes from Krypton".

13. '''Silver Kryptonite''': A fake Kryptonite created by Jimmy Olsen as a hoax for Superman's Silver Anniversary.

14. '''Yellow Kryptonite''': A synthetic Kryptonite created by Lex Luthor as a hoax to mentally torture Superman.

15. '''False Kryptonite''': Created by Supergirl using magic from a wishing well from a piece of Green Kryptonite, it is perfectly harmless.

16. '''Synthetic Kryptonite''': Synthetic versions of Green Kryptonite created in laboratories.

17. '''mutated kryptonite''': A white card with a [[Kryptonian]] symbol on it used by the villain [[Zo-Mar]] was made from an unnamed form of mutated kryptonite that robbed any [[Kryptonian]] of his powers when he was very near it, but which was not otherwise harmful and had no permenant effect. (DCCP No. 84).

Whenever the word kryptonite appears in this encyclopedia without a specific color designation, it is green kryptonite, the most common variety, that is being referred to. (See [[Superman]] [ [[Superman#Kryptonite|section 7.1, kryptonite]] ].)

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Zo-Mar

2005-03-12T03:18:39Z

Admiral Chew: added categories

A [[Kryptonian]] criminal who attempted to enslave all of [[Krypton]] by using a card with a special symbol in it. As [[Superman]]â€™s father [[Jor-el]] once explained to his wife [[Lara]]:
In his hand, this card gave Zo-Mar mastery over
any and all people he showed it to! Even the strongest
willed of us would be powerless to resist. Thankfully,
Dru-[[Zod]] was able to knock it from his grasp before
Zo-Mar could take over Fort Rozz.
For his crime, Zo-Mar was sentence to lifetime incarceration in a satellite prison.

Zo-mar survived the destruction of [[Krypton]] in his satellite prison, and eventually in August 1985 he finds his way to earth. There he uses the card to gain control over the [[Challengers of the Unknown]] and [[Superman]]. Zo-Mar who has no powers on earth demands that [[Superman]] explain to him the secret of his powers. Under Zo-Marâ€™s influence [[Superman]] cannot help but tell Zo-Mar the truth that all [[Kryptonian]]s have super-powers under earths yellow sun and lesser gravity and he does not know why Zo-Mar does not have them; however, Zo-Mar does not believe him and is convinced that he has found away to resist his order.

In an effort to break [[Superman]]â€™s will Zo-Mar orders him to destroy the town they are in. Powerless to resist, Superman goes on a rampage destroying every building in the town. Even though he cannot refuse Zo-marâ€™s commands, [[Superman]] is able to use super-ventriloquism and his mimicry of Zo-Marâ€™s voice to give commands to the [[Challengers of the Unknown]] and order them to take the card away from Zo-Mar. Once they succeed Zo-mar looses his control over [[Superman]], but Zo-Mar suddenly gains super-powers including one power [[Superman]] does not have, the ability to generate some form of energy from his hands. [[Superman]] does not understand why Zo-Mar has this power, but he deduces the reason that Zo-mar had now powers and has suddenly gained them: the card with the special symbol on it is made from a mutated form of [[kryptonite]] which robs any [[Kryptonian]] very near to it of his powers but which is not otherwise harmful and has no permanent effect. [[Superman]] uses his super breath to draw the card away from the Challengers and toward Zo-Mar. When Zo-Mar grabs it he looses his powers. Superman using split second timing punches Zo-Mar just as he grabs the card and knocks him unconscious before he can once again gain control over him.

[[Superman]] places Zo-Mar into the [[Phantom Zone]] to serve the rest of his life-long sentence. There Zo-mar is surprised to find Zod, the [[Kryptonian]] who had brought about his defeat on Krypton. There appears to be no animosity between the two men who each had failed to conquer [[Krypton]] however, as Zo-mar says to [[Zod]] and [[Jax-Ur]], â€œWhile the son of [[Jor-el]] roams free on a planet ripe for the conquering, we must plan together.â€ (DCCP No. 84: â€œGive Me Powerâ€¦ Give Me Your World!â€)

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Zo-Mar

2005-03-12T03:17:18Z

Admiral Chew:

Zo-Mar

2005-03-12T03:16:31Z

Admiral Chew:

A [[Kryptonian]] criminal who attempted to enslave all of [[Krypton]] by using a card with a special symbol in it. As [[Superman]]â€™s father [[Jor-el]] once explained to his wife [[Lara]]:
In his hand, this card gave Zo-Mar mastery over
any and all people he showed it to! Even the strongest
willed of us would be powerless to resist. Thankfully,
Dru-[[Zod]] was able to knock it from his grasp before
Zo-Mar could take over Fort Rozz.
For his crime, Zo-Mar was sentence to lifetime incarceration in a satellite prison.

Zo-mar survived the destruction of [[Krypton]] in his satellite prison and eventually, in August 1985 he finds his way to earth. There he uses the card to gain control over the [[Challengers of the Unknown]] and [[Superman]]. Zo-Mar who has no powers on earth demands that [[Superman]] explain to him the secret of his powers. Under Zo-Marâ€™s influence [[Superman]] cannot help but tell Zo-Mar the truth that all [[Kryptonian]]s have super-powers under earths yellow sun and lesser gravity and he does not know why Zo-Mar does not have them; however, Zo-Mar does not believe him and is convinced that he has found away to resist his order.

In an effort to break [[Superman]]â€™s will Zo-Mar orders him to destroy the town they are in. Powerless to resist, Superman goes on a rampage destroying every building in the town. Even though he cannot refuse Zo-marâ€™s commands, [[Superman]] is able to use super-ventriloquism and his mimicry of Zo-Marâ€™s voice to give commands to the [[Challengers of the Unknown]] and order them to take the card away from Zo-Mar. Once they succeed Zo-mar looses his control over [[Superman]], but Zo-Mar suddenly gains super-powers including one power [[Superman]] does not have, the ability to generate some form of energy from his hands. [[Superman]] does not understand why Zo-Mar has this power, but he deduces the reason that Zo-mar had now powers and has suddenly gained them: the card with the special symbol on it is made from a mutated form of [[kryptonite]] which robs any [[Kryptonian]] very near to it of his powers but which is not otherwise harmful and has no permanent effect. [[Superman]] uses his super breath to draw the card away from the Challengers and toward Zo-Mar. When Zo-Mar grabs it he looses his powers. Superman using split second timing punches Zo-Mar just as he grabs the card and knocks him unconscious before he can once again gain control over him.

[[Superman]] places Zo-Mar into the [[Phantom Zone]] to serve the rest of his life-long sentence. There Zo-mar is surprised to find Zod, the [[Kryptonian]] who had brought about his defeat on Krypton. There appears to be no animosity between the two men who each had failed to conquer [[Krypton]] however, as Zo-mar says to [[Zod]] and [[Jax-Ur]], â€œWhile the son of [[Jor-el]] roams free on a planet ripe for the conquering, we must plan together.â€ (DCCP No. 84: â€œGive Me Powerâ€¦ Give Me Your World!â€)

Zo-Mar

2005-03-12T03:15:42Z

Admiral Chew:

A [[Kryptonian]] criminal who attempted to enslave all of [[Krypton]] by using a card with a special symbol in it. As [[Superman]]â€™s father [[Jor-el]] once explained to his wife [[Lora]]:
In his hand, this card gave Zo-Mar mastery over
any and all people he showed it to! Even the strongest
willed of us would be powerless to resist. Thankfully,
Dru-[[Zod]] was able to knock it from his grasp before
Zo-Mar could take over Fort Rozz.
For his crime, Zo-Mar was sentence to lifetime incarceration in a satellite prison.

Zo-mar survived the destruction of [[Krypton]] in his satellite prison and eventually, in August 1985 he finds his way to earth. There he uses the card to gain control over the [[Challengers of the Unknown]] and [[Superman]]. Zo-Mar who has no powers on earth demands that [[Superman]] explain to him the secret of his powers. Under Zo-Marâ€™s influence [[Superman]] cannot help but tell Zo-Mar the truth that all [[Kryptonian]]s have super-powers under earths yellow sun and lesser gravity and he does not know why Zo-Mar does not have them; however, Zo-Mar does not believe him and is convinced that he has found away to resist his order.

In an effort to break [[Superman]]â€™s will Zo-Mar orders him to destroy the town they are in. Powerless to resist, Superman goes on a rampage destroying every building in the town. Even though he cannot refuse Zo-marâ€™s commands, [[Superman]] is able to use super-ventriloquism and his mimicry of Zo-Marâ€™s voice to give commands to the [[Challengers of the Unknown]] and order them to take the card away from Zo-Mar. Once they succeed Zo-mar looses his control over [[Superman]], but Zo-Mar suddenly gains super-powers including one power [[Superman]] does not have, the ability to generate some form of energy from his hands. [[Superman]] does not understand why Zo-Mar has this power, but he deduces the reason that Zo-mar had now powers and has suddenly gained them: the card with the special symbol on it is made from a mutated form of [[kryptonite]] which robs any [[Kryptonian]] very near to it of his powers but which is not otherwise harmful and has no permanent effect. [[Superman]] uses his super breath to draw the card away from the Challengers and toward Zo-Mar. When Zo-Mar grabs it he looses his powers. Superman using split second timing punches Zo-Mar just as he grabs the card and knocks him unconscious before he can once again gain control over him.

[[Superman]] places Zo-Mar into the [[Phantom Zone]] to serve the rest of his life-long sentence. There Zo-mar is surprised to find Zod, the [[Kryptonian]] who had brought about his defeat on Krypton. There appears to be no animosity between the two men who each had failed to conquer [[Krypton]] however, as Zo-mar says to [[Zod]] and [[Jax-Ur]], â€œWhile the son of [[Jor-el]] roams free on a planet ripe for the conquering, we must plan together.â€ (DCCP No. 84: â€œGive Me Powerâ€¦ Give Me Your World!â€)

Blue Kryptonite

2005-03-11T20:56:30Z

Admiral Chew:

This form of [[kryptonite]], also know as "Bizarro kryptonite" because it emits radiations to which only [[Bizarro]] creatures are vulnerable, was first brought into being by [[Superman]] in October 1960 as a means of thwarting an invasion of Earth by Bizarros from the planet [[Htrae]]. By focusing [[Lex Luthor]]'s "duplicator ray"--an ingenious device designed to create imperfect molecular duplicates of either animate of inanimate objects--on a mound of green kryptonite, Superman produces a new, imperfect form of kryptonite that is harmless to [[Kryptonian]] survivors but deadly to Bizarros. One unfortunate Bizarro creature, a [[Bizarro-Supergirl]], succumbs to the fatal effects of blue-kryptonite poisoning in October 1960 (S No. 140: pts. I-III--"The Son of Bizarro!"; "The 'Orphan' Bizarro!"; "The Bizaro Supergirl!"

Unlike other formes of [[kryptonite]], blue kryptonite radiation is not blocked by ordinary lead. However, an imperfect duplicate of lead created with the bizarro ray will block blue Kryptonite radiation as is seen in November 1961 when a race a blue kryptonite creatures who lived inside the Bizarro world of [[Htrae]] invade the surface of the planet. (Adventure Comics No. 291)

One apparently apocryphal account has Bizarro #1 killing himself with a small piece of blue krpytonite so he could be a perfect imperfect duplicate of [[Superman]]. This was necessary Bizarro reasoned since [[Superman]] was alive, he should be dead. (S No. 423: September 1986, "What Ever Happened To the Man of Tomorrow?"

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Blue Kryptonite

2005-03-11T20:54:08Z

Admiral Chew: replaced part of entry with entry from TGSB

This form of [[kryptonite]], also know as "Bizarro kryptonite" because it emits radiations to which only [[Bizarro]] creatures are vulnerable, was first brought into being by [[Superman]] in October 1960 as a means of thwarting an invasion of Earth by Bizarros from the planet [[Htrae]]. By focusing [[Lex Luthor]]'s "duplicator ray"--an ingenious device designed to create imperfect molecular duplicates of either animate of inanimate objects--on a mound of green kryptonite, Superman produces a new, imperfect form of kryptonite that is harmless to [[Kryptonian]] survivors but deadly to Bizarros. One unfortunate Bizarro creature, a [[Bizarro-Supergirl]], succumbs to the fatal effects of blue-kryptonite poisoning in October 1960 (S No. 140: pts. I-III--"The Son of Bizarro!"; "The 'Orphan' Bizarro!"; "The Bizaro Supergirl!"

Unlike other formes of [[kryptonite]], blue Kryptonite radiation is not blocked by ordinary lead. However, an imperfect duplicate of lead created with the bizarro ray will block blue Kryptonite radiation as is seen in November 1961 when a race a blue Kryptonite creatures who lived inside the Bizarro world of [[Htrae]] invade the surface of the planet. (Adventure Comics No. 291)

One apparently apocryphal account has Bizarro #1 killing himself with a small piece of blue Krpytonite so he could be a perfect imperfect duplicate of [[Superman]]. This was necessary Bizarro reasoned since [[Superman]] was alive, he should be dead. (S No. 423: September 1986, "What Ever Happened To the Man of Tomorrow?"

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