pre-crisis Superman

[tenchi03]

What are some of his most amazing feats?

[Forsaken_One]

IIRC he moved Earth by pushing it a few times. That's pretty damn impressive. I mean, how many other people can violate the laws of physics like that?

[Jeff O.]

Here's a scene of the time pre-Crisis Kal chained together a bunch of planets and towed them across the universe. (And he was still just a teen at the time.)

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=page2&issue=83644612238%20140

[superlurker]

He moved a star by pushing it once when he was making a new solar system. The people there named everything after him in gratitude -- the Superman Sun, the Superman planet, the Superman comet, the Superman asteroid, the Superman mountain, etc. He tried making a new star before he moved one; the one he made kind of burned out after a few days, though.

He blew out a star using his super-breath once, as part of a rather elaborate scheme to protect his secret identity.

He contained a supernova by flying in circles around it, but he overdid it, and accidentally turned the star into a black hole.

[thehod]

I remember in the last issue of Crisis, he ended up chucking a few fairly large asteroids at the Anti-Moniter, which is quite an impressive feat.

[tenchi03]

Was he immortal? I read that there were a few pre-crisis issues indicating he was immortal.

[Kid Seven]

As far as i remember, basically. He'd age a little after a awhile I think, but yeah long-lived enough to be immortal.

[Lurker]

Its been alluded that the post-Crisis Supes is Immortal as well, DC One Million and what have you.

[Forsaken_One]

I'm sure if character were actually aging DC would find a way, like in Generations, to get Batman to become immortal as well. DC can't stand the idea of Superman actually going away any more than they can produce an Elseworld that has Kal-El not becoming Superman.

[barbgrayson]

i guess its pretty obvious why dc decided to do away with the pre-crisis supes he's too impersonal and way too powerful for anyone to relate to

[666MasterOfPuppets]

I remember he tossed a building into space, and that building traveled 25 parsecs (25*3.262 LY), enough to take the aliens who lived there to their homeplanet.

And yes, he's immortal.

[hotrodimus]

but his weakness is still kryptonite right? how does he get his powers then? still from the sun?

[666MasterOfPuppets]

Yes. Several kinds of Kryptonite, actually. Gold, Green, Red among them.

And yes, he drew his powers from the sun.

[Forsaken_One]

The "sun" thing was much more immediate from what I remember though. I mean, if he was hit with red sunlight he'd just be depowered immediately, whereas post-crisis he just wouldn't be gaining power.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

Exactly. And that's why I didn't understand what happened recently in Adventures Of Superman.

[Slam_Bradley]

Obviously his greatest feat was keeping people from recognizing him using only glasses and lack of a spit curl.

[The Shadow]

Obviously his greatest feat was keeping people from recognizing him using only glasses and lack of a spit curl.
By george I think you're right!!!!!

LOL

Good observation!

[dancj]

The "sun" thing was much more immediate from what I remember though. I mean, if he was hit with red sunlight he'd just be depowered immediately, whereas post-crisis he just wouldn't be gaining power.

Thank god for that. That whole "red sun weakens Supes" thing never made sense to me. It was always supposed to be yellow sunlight that made him stong, not red sunlight that made him weak.

[dancj]

Obviously his greatest feat was keeping people from recognizing him using only glasses and lack of a spit curl.

Well pre-Crisis, his glasses were made out of glass from the ship he came to Earth in (which let him use his heat vision through them). He didn't realise it at first, but this glass had a hypnotic effect which made people thing Clark looked a lot older and frailer than Superman, so in most people's eyes there wasn't much resemblance.

[The Joker]

Supes also (according to DC pre-crisis history) ended World War 2 by picking up Hitler, and his ally Stalin, and dropped them off at the United Nations. End of story. End of War.

And all in 2 pages! Pretty impressive stuff.

[Tom]

Supes also (according to DC pre-crisis history) ended World War 2 by picking up Hitler, and his ally Stalin, and dropped them off at the United Nations. End of story. End of War.

And all in 2 pages! Pretty impressive stuff.That wasn't part of pre-Crisis continuity. Not to mention that Stalin wasn't Hitler's ally.

[Slam_Bradley]

Supes also (according to DC pre-crisis history) ended World War 2 by picking up Hitler, and his ally Stalin, and dropped them off at the United Nations. End of story. End of War.

And all in 2 pages! Pretty impressive stuff.


That story was before Germany invaded Russia and just after Germany and Russia split Poland. It was a special feature for Look magazine.

[The Joker]

When I said DC history, I was using it VERY loosely. :D

Thanks for the info Slam. I had no idea where that story appeared in, but remember it being quickly covered in the history channels "comic book" special that aired in '03.

[theadslguy]

Isn't the most common explanation of people not realizing that Clark and Supes are one and the same is because he has a way of vibrating him self so that if people take pictures or look at him his face is a blur? I remember reading that somewhere.

The Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow story that was one of the last big pre-crisis stories was pretty neat, I had the first issue but not the second one so I still don't know what happened. (though I got a basic rundown from supermanhomepage, not the same as reading the issue though)

Other than that I didn't read too much pre-crisis superman, but I've read about some of it.

[666MasterOfPuppets]

Well pre-Crisis, his glasses were made out of glass from the ship he came to Earth in (which let him use his heat vision through them). He didn't realise it at first, but this glass had a hypnotic effect which made people thing Clark looked a lot older and frailer than Superman, so in most people's eyes there wasn't much resemblance.

Nice piece of information. Thanks.

[RJComics]

It wasn't the glass that caused the effect. It was Superman himself, broadcasting a low beam type of super hypnosis that made people see Clark as being more frail. This story was basically ignored by the end of the series.

[Slam_Bradley]

Isn't the most common explanation of people not realizing that Clark and Supes are one and the same is because he has a way of vibrating him self so that if people take pictures or look at him his face is a blur? I remember reading that somewhere.



I only recall that explaination used for Jay Garrick.

[Master Darque]

This explanation ( vibratory blurring of Supes features in public )was also used for Supes in Byrne's Man of Steel 6 issue mini that revamped the big blue boyscout !

[dancj]

It wasn't the glass that caused the effect. It was Superman himself, broadcasting a low beam type of super hypnosis that made people see Clark as being more frail. This story was basically ignored by the end of the series.

I was sure it was the glasses - I'll have to check when I get home tonight.

Either way I remember it as not being a very good story

[dancj]

I checked - he had a super hypnosis power which was amplified by the kryptonian lenses in his glasses, so I guess we were both right!

[Master Darque]

* smacks self in forehead *
PRE-Crisis , Mike .....

I knew that originally , the lenses were shaped from glass from the ship that brought him to Earth ....but I didn't know all the other stuff ...about super-hypnosis or anything else . Interesting .

[666MasterOfPuppets]

I didn't know that either. Very interesting info.