Editing Krypton (comics) (section)

==Overview==
Krypton is usually portrayed in comics as the home of a fantastically advanced civilization, which is destroyed when the planet explodes. As originally depicted, all the civilizations and races of Krypton perished in the explosion, with one exception: the baby [[Kal-El]] who was placed in an escape rocket by his father, [[Jor-El]], and sent to the planet [[Earth]], where he grew up to become Superman.

[[File:Kandor Action Comics 866.png|thumb|upright|The bottled city of [[Kandor (comics)|Kandor]] in ''Action Comics'' #866; art by Gary Frank and Jon Sibal.]]
In some versions of the story, additional survivors were later discovered, such as [[Supergirl]], her parents (kept alive in the "Survival Zone", a similar parallel "dimension" to the [[Phantom Zone]]), the criminal inhabitants of the Phantom Zone, [[Dev-Em]], the residents of the bottled city of [[Kandor (comics)|Kandor]], the real parents of both Superman and Supergirl, and their pets [[Krypto|Krypto the Superdog]], and [[Beppo (comics)|Beppo the Super-Monkey]]. Kandor, the first capital of Krypton, is miniaturized by [[Brainiac (character)|Brainiac]], but is eventually recovered by Superman and subsequently housed in the [[Fortress of Solitude]] for safekeeping. Soon afterward, Kryptonopolis becomes the second capital of Krypton.

From the late 1980s through the early 2000s, the number of survivors was reduced to Superman himself in the [[comic book]] stories (the [[Eradicator (comics)|Eradicator]] was added in 1989 as a non-sentient device,<ref name="actionannual2">{{Cite comic | writer=[[Roger Stern|Stern, Roger]] | cowriters=[[Jerry Ordway]], [[George Pérez]] | penciller=[[Curt Swan|Swan, Curt]] | copencillers=Jerry Ordway, George Pérez | inker=Breeding, Brett | coinkers=[[John Statema]] | story= Memories of Krypton's Past | title= Action Comics Annual | issue = 2|date=1989 | publisher=[[DC Comics]] | location=New York}}</ref> and shown to be self-aware in 1991<ref>''Superman: The Man of Steel'' #1</ref>), but more recent accounts have restored Supergirl, Krypto, and Kandor and introduced another newly discovered survivor, [[Kristin Wells#Third Kryptonian|Karsta Wor-Ul]].

Kryptonian civilization's reported level of technological advancement has also varied. Some works, such as [[Kevin J. Anderson]]'s novel ''The Last Days of Krypton'', describe it as a few centuries ahead of Earth, while others, such as the ''Superman'' film series and ''Man of Steel'', describe it as thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years more advanced.