Superman: "Cork?"

Touching his head, Superman looked at the stopper on the bottle.

Although his body has been shrunk, Superman's strength has not been reduced, and he uses his super strength to push the plug.

Superman: "I can't let Brainiac find out I got out of the bottle."

Superman pushed the stopper open, and then covered it up again to prevent Brainiac from becoming suspicious.

Superman: "This should be the stance device Brainiac uses to resist attacks."

Immediately afterwards, the shrunken Superman quickly discovered the position generating device inside the flying object, which was a pushing device that looked like a handle.

Brainiac: "Wait a minute, there's a buzzing fly there, hit it, koko!"

Koko: "Zhizhi!"

Superman was about to study the stance generating device, but Brainiac noticed him flying around and asked Koko, an alien creature that looked like a monkey, to hit him with a fly swatter.

Snapped!

Superman: "Fortunately, Brainiac wasn't looking carefully, but his pet kept chasing me, and I needed to find a place to hide."

In order to avoid being hit, Superman quickly flew into an open bottle.

Superman: "This is here, why does it look so familiar?"

Looking at the city in the bottle, Superman had an inexplicable feeling of familiarity, but then his flying body landed on the ground. It turned out that this city actually belonged to his hometown of Krypton, and the original Kryptonite was copied in the bottle.

Some gravity caused his superpowers to lose their effect.

Superman then found a scientist in the bottle, and after introducing each other, he discovered that the scientist and his father were college roommates. Superman told about his experiences over the years, and the scientist also told him that Kandor City is the capital of Krypton.

The star was installed by Brainiac before it exploded.

Superman told the scientist about his current mission. The scientist said that he had figured out Brainiac's device in the bottle over the years, and gave Superman a blueprint that could help him change the city in the bottle back to its original state.

.However, Superman also expressed to him his helplessness that he now has no superpowers.

Superman: "I really want to do all this, but I have lost my ability. The gravity in Kandor prevents me from flying."

Scientists led Superman to browse everything in Kandor City. They built an aircraft that could fly in a bottle, raised rare moles in glass that could eat metal, built robots that did farm work, and created an artificial sun.

Everything made Superman sigh.

Bregnak: "Very good, koko, all you have to do is wait."

On the other side, Brainiac has collected all the great cities on the earth and plans to return to his home planet. He and his pet Koko lie in a dormant cabin. The two will not wake up in a hundred years.

.

Scientist: "My telescope saw Brainiac entering the hibernation chamber. This is not a good thing..."

After learning all this through the telescope, Superman hurriedly told Superman everything. Once Brainiac began to sleep, the entire control system would not restart until a hundred years later. Superman was surprised and worried about the person he knew in the bottle a hundred years later.

They are all married and have children, and Louise has long since died.

Superman: "Something must be done, we can't let this happen!"

Thinking of this, Superman made an immediate decision. He borrowed the aircraft and the metal-eating mole from the scientists, and drove the aircraft to the mouth of the bottle, allowing the mole to eat a hole in the bottle. Superman came out of the hole, away from the gravity of Krypton. Superman

After regaining his superpower, he hit the corresponding button with his body according to the drawing, and the metropolis recovered and returned to the earth.

Superman: "Now there's only one left."

After restoring all the cities on Earth, the remaining energy can only be used once again, and you have to choose between yourself and the city of Kandor.

Superman: "More than me, everyone in Kandor needs to be restored to size."

After thinking about it, Superman was about to restore Kandor City, but unexpectedly a miniature spacecraft hit the button, and the ray made Superman grow bigger.

Superman: "Doctor, why did you do this?"

Scientist: "Brignac will not give up. Once he wakes up and finds that all the cities he collected are missing, he will definitely attack the earth again. The earth needs to be protected, so Superman cannot shrink!"

Superman discovered that it was the scientist in the miniature spaceship. He also saw this situation in the bottle, and made a decision to restore the greatest hero on earth and continue to protect the safety of the earth.

Superman took Kandor City away from Brainiac's aircraft and arrived at the Secret Citadel.

Superman: "I promise that one day I will restore the city of Kandor."

…

As the first alien villain to appear in the "Superman" series.

The appearance of Brainiac left a very deep impression on readers, especially the scene where cities on the earth are shrunk one by one and put into bottles. It was even more exciting to see this scene in the "Courier Daily" at the time.

The reader exclaimed and even wondered for a time whether the New York where he was currently located had also been shrunk into a bottle by Brainiac, but it had not been discovered yet.

Immediately afterwards, the city of Kandor appeared, giving readers more ideas about the subsequent comic plot.

The technological level of Kandor City originally exceeded that of Earth, and their observation of Kandor City also allowed them to get a glimpse of how developed Krypton was in the past. Readers have always expressed strong feelings towards this planet that gave birth to Superman.

Good mood, however, both in the comics and the radio drama, there is only a brief description of Krypton, and most of the plot revolves around the destruction of this planet.

The emergence of Kandor City allows readers to understand the development of Krypton from another novel perspective, and how different this alien city is from Earth.

In the plot of Kandor City, it was revealed that Superman's abilities seem to be related to gravity. In Kandor City, which has a Kryptonian ecology, Superman cannot exert his abilities, but his abilities are restored once he leaves.

Does this mean that other Kryptonians from Kandor can also gain abilities like Superman?

Colin tried his best not to change the setting of Kandor City. The explanation for why Superman was unable to use his powers in Kandor City had actually been explained as early as the original comic design. At that time, in the story

In the background, he mentioned that the source of Superman's abilities was due to his physiological structure as a Kryptonian being different from that of Earthlings, as well as the differences between the two planets.

Colin doesn't care too much about the weakness of Krypton's gravity.

After all, unlike Kryptonite, the entire planet of Krypton is gone. God knows what the so-called gravity is all about.

Besides, although he has unlocked Superman's abilities, he is not a Kryptonian. Even if the so-called Kryptonian gravity does exist, it is still unclear whether it will be effective on him.

In any case, Brainiac's plot design has been extremely popular among readers of "Superman".

The design of the alien villain Brainiac not only expands the objects that Superman needs to fight against, but also gives readers more room for imagination for the subsequent plot. They not only hope to see Superman on Earth and Luthor on these Earths

I also look forward to seeing Superman fighting in outer space.

…

"The latest report is that a Courier Daily newspaper serial printed with the image of the Superman villain "Brainiac" for the first time was sold at auction on the 23rd for US$2.6 million, setting a record for the highest auction price for a fifth comic series in history.

The auction, which was conducted online and started two weeks ago, attracted a total of 52,568 bidders, and the names of the buyer and seller were not disclosed."

"Stephen Fishler, the owner of the auction website iect, revealed that because the person who bought the Courier Daily in 1932 was only 13 years old at the time, he bought it from a newsstand for 2 cents. The boy later forgot about it.

He kept it until he rediscovered it in his mother's basement in 1966, hoping that one day it would appreciate in value."

"Although the circulation of "The Daily Courier" was huge at that time, not many newspapers can be handed down intact. Most of them are included in museums, and "Brignac" is the first in the history of Superman.

A classic alien villain designed by Colin Looper, the father of superheroes, has always been loved by readers. The auction of "The Courier Daily" is the first time in the history of "Brignac" comics

The publications are of great collection value.”

"The Courier Daily appears at auction for the first time, which is of precious significance to both Superman comic collectors and historical researchers."

"Superman comics were originally created by Colin Looper and published in The Courier."

"Due to the social unrest, high crime rate, and economic depression in the United States in the 1930s, the superhero image created by Superman gained the love of the American people as soon as it was released, and became popular throughout the United States. Therefore, there was a special issue of "Superman"

, even animations, movies, and until now, Superman is still one of the symbols of American culture."

…

[Ability—Heat Vision (Bronze)]

[Ability—Super Speed ​​(Bronze)]

Churchville, Fisher-Price toy manufacturing plant.

"Mr. Colin Looper, are you okay?"

Herman Fisher and others looked at Colin who suddenly stopped talking and looked thoughtful, and then looked at each other and asked.

"fine."

Shaking his head, Colin retracted his gaze from the looming words in front of his eyes and said nothing.

The publication of "The Courier Daily" unsurprisingly unlocked the [Bronze] level of two abilities for him.

Under the prompts of the text, Colin felt a little bit about the abilities in his body. Even under the suppression of the positive world, he was able to exert some of his power.

At least in the future, in the real world, [heat sight] can not only be used to heat food, but can also be used to light fires.

"The Romance of Fairy Wood"

As for the other [super speed] ability, looking up at Herman and others at the Fisher-Price Toy Workshop, Colin's thoughts began to flow slightly. The speeds around him seemed to start running at 0.5 times slower. When he heard the gaze

While watching, Herman nodded slowly in response, and then slowly stretched out his finger, pointed at the crude prototype in front of him, and said slowly: "So... So... Lu... Po... first...

...give birth to...you..."

Looking at Herman, who opened and closed his mouth in front of him and spoke like a slow-motion movie, Colin raised his eyebrows and ended the use of his [super speed] ability. He found that listening to people in this mode was too strenuous.

A little bit faster, especially when the speed on my side is normal.
To be continued...