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Appearing in "Superman's Other Life"
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- Jor-El (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Lara Lor-Van (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Krypto (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Pa Kent (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Ma Kent (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Xan-Du/Futuro (Single appearance) (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Zal-El (Only appearance; dies) (Appears in Imaginary Story)
- Lois Lane (Appears in Imaginary Story)
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Synopsis for "Superman's Other Life"
Story reprinted from Superman #132....
Visiting Superman and his Fortress of Solitude, Batman and Robin have come presenting a gift to Superman for a previous rescue. Batman and Robin gift the Man of Steel with an impressive idea: Feed all known information info about Krypton into Superman's Univac Computer and see if it can predict what would have happened if Krypton was destroyed.
The computer presents a possible history where Jor-El was wrong about Krypton's imminent destruction and stops young Kal-El from being launched into space. The young Kal-El is raised by his parents and enjoys time playing with his dog Krypto and his new robot companion: Robo, whom he built himself. Attending school, Kal-El takes an interest in the planet Earth, and while viewing the Kent family, saves them from a car accident, they would go on an adopt a girl from the Smallville Orphanage instead of their fated destiny to adopt Kal-El as a child. Later Jor-El and Lara give birth to a second son Zal-El.
Kal-El would finish school and begin participating in the Space Patrol in the hopes of riding in rank to be able to partake in missions into space. He is mentored by superior officer Xan-Du. One day when Xan-Du is testing out a new Static-Ray device (Which has different effects on different creatures) Xan-Du and Krypto are accidentally bombarded with the devices rays, causing both to be given super-powers similar to that of Superman when on Earth. Having to go to a costume party, Xan-Du takes on a costume similar to that of Superman's and calls himself Futuro.
At the costume party, (where Kal-El has dressed up as an Earth man and ironically dressed up as his real-life alter ego), the hovering building where the festivities are taking place begins to plummet, prompting Xan-Du to rescue everyone, and continue his Futuro guise and act as a super-hero on Krypton. When Kal-El discovers Krypto's super-powers, he has the dog pull him to where Futuro's secret hide out is and learns his true identity. Kal-El then becomes Futuro's sidekick trusting the hero to his secret identity. Futuro becomes a hero on Krypton, coming to the rescue and having Kal-El. During a mission in space, Kal-El's parents and brother are killed when their rocket ship crashes on a magnetic asteroid causing their ship to explode. Futuro builds a monument to the family on an chunk of the exploded asteroid in their memory.
Later a ship from Earth is caught in space, and Futuro saves the occupants and brings them back to Krypton, aboard the rocket it reporter Lois Lane, who is shown around Krypton by Kal-El, Lois grows fond of Futuro. After a misadventure with a Kryptonian drilling device, leading to Futuro saving Lois and Kal-El, Futuro admits that he has fallen in love with Lois and asks her to marry him. Deciding to return with Lois to Earth, Futuro uses the Static Device on Kal-El, giving him super-powers as well and leaving him to defend Krypton, dubbing him Superman.
With this vision of a possible alternate course Superman's life could have been taken, the three heroes muse over how Kal-El was always fated to become Superman.
Appearing in "The Man Who Destroyed Krypton"
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Synopsis for "The Man Who Destroyed Krypton"
Story reprinted from Superboy #67...
Klax-Ar, a renegade scientist exiled from Krypton in years past by Jor-El, claims responsibility for the destruction of Superboy’s homeworld (falsely) and, his powers on the wane thanks to exposure to atron-rays, puts into motion a scheme to sap the powers from Superboy and infuse them into his own body.
Appearing in "The Invasion of Krypton!"
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Synopsis for "The Invasion of Krypton!"
Story reprinted from Superboy #83....
Superboy once again uses his Total Recall and mind-prober ray to remember another episode of his childhood on Krypton. This time, he remembers how, when he and Krypto were treated with Jor-El’s anti-gravity ray, they used their resultant powers to defeat an alien invasion force.
Appearing in "How Jimmy Olsen First Met Superman!"
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- Jimmy Olsen (flashback and main story)
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- Superman (flashback and main story)
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- Jor-El
- Krypto
- Lara Lor-Van
- Superbaby
- Professor Crane (Single appearance)
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- Krypton (flashback only)
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Synopsis for "How Jimmy Olsen First Met Superman!"
Story reprinted from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #36...
Jimmy Olsen recalls the events that took place when he first came to Metropolis: he volunteered to test a scientist’s time-travel machine, which took him back to Krypton before its explosion. Jimmy took a job babysitting Kal-El, who would become Superman on Earth, and had several adventures with him, Krypto, and Jor-El and Lara before witnessing the launch of Kal-El’s rocket just before Krypton’s explosion. Jimmy evaded death by using the time machine to return to Earth in his proper era, but his memory of his Krypton adventure was wiped away by the crossing of the time-barrier. The time machine’s creator judged his device a failure, and Jimmy went looking for work. But Superman, who remembered Jimmy with his super-memory, got Jimmy a job as a cub reporter at the Daily Planet and gave him a secret signal-watch whose ultrasonic sound could summon him in times of emergency. Superman reveals to Jimmy the details of his adventure on Krypton. In the present, Superman jokes that Jimmy once spanked him as baby Kal-El--”A fine way to treat your future pal!”
Appearing in "The Super-Monkey from Krypton!"
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Synopsis for "The Super-Monkey from Krypton!"
Story reprinted from Superboy #76...
While visiting a zoo, Clark Kent is reminded of how, when he was a child, an experimental monkey of Jor-El’s had stowed away aboard his rocket, escaping before it exploded, gaining super-powers on Earth, taking Clark’s Kryptonian playsuit for himself, causing trouble for baby Clark, and eventually fleeing to outer space. Clark wonders when he will see Super-Monkey again.
Appearing in "The Sleeping Beauty from Krypton!"
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- Bruce Wayne
- Jor-El (flashback only)
- Lana Lang (In a photograph only)
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Synopsis for "The Sleeping Beauty from Krypton!"
Story reprinted from Superman #128....
Lois Lane is a contestant on the show "Bid the Price" and correctly appraises the value of a giant gong Superman once used on an alien robot. As the winning contestant, Lois is gifted with props from the film "The Krypton Story" including a replica of the ship that brought Superman to Earth, a Kryptonian woman's outfit, a Kryptonian camera and slides from and footage from the film.
Lois gets the idea to try and use these items to trick Superman into revealing his secret identity. Putting on the costume and a blond wig, Lois tracks down Superman and convinces him that she's really Rama, his apparent babysitter from Krypton. Explaining that she was put in suspended animation and launched from Krypton before it exploded by his father, she explains that she pasted through a cloud of Kryptonite dust that temporarily nullified her powers. Using the props that she won on the game show, Lois manages to fool Superman, who reveals his secret identity of Clark Kent. However, returning home, Superman realizes that he's been tricked because there would have been no way "Rama" would have learned that her powers were temporarily lost from Kryptonite if she was in suspended animation the whole time.
Learning that it was really Lois Lane hoaxing him, Superman then comes up with a way to "disprove" that he's really Clark Kent. The next day, Superman appears before Lois and tells her that he's in love with Rama and intends to marry her. Lois reveals to him that she is really Rama and that she knows her secret identity. When Clark Kent suddenly appears before both Lois and Superman, Lois is still not convinced. Believing that Clark is really one of Superman's robots, she has him stand in front of an x-ray, which proves that he's really a human. Next, convinced that Superman is truly the robot, she has the Man of Steel exposed to electromagnets, which yield no results. Convinced that Clark Kent and Superman are two different people once more, the flustered Lois realizes that it was all a hoax and that Superman trying to teach her a lesson once more. When Lois leaves, "Clark Kent" unmasks himself, and is revealed to be Superman's friend Bruce Wayne (AKA, Batman) who was called in to cover for him.
Appearing in "The Super-Teacher from Krypton"
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Synopsis for "The Super-Teacher from Krypton"
Story reprinted from Adventure Comics #240...
A robot teacher programmed by Jor-El to teach Kal-El survives the explosion of Krypton, comes to Earth, and puts Superboy thru a series of super-power examinations. Superboy gets no feedback from the machine until he is finished as it informs him he has failed and must give up being Superboy. Superboy is crestfallen, but agrees to abide by the decision the machine has rendered, upon which the teacher congratulates him and tells him he just passed the final test to see if he would willingly refrain from exercising his power. Superboy has passed all the tests with flying colors.
Notes
- This issue features a bonus depicting the flag of Krypton.
Trivia
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