Editing Krypton (comics) (section)

====Revisiting Krypton====
In ''Action Comics'' #600 (May 1988), Krypton was close enough to Earth that the radiation from its explosion (traveling only at light speed) was able to reach Earth.

In a 1988 storyline, Superman traveled to the former site of Krypton to discover that the planet was slowly reforming from the vast sphere of debris remaining. It would take millions of years before the planet would be solid again. This sphere of debris had been turned to [[kryptonite]] by the planet's destruction, and the radiation caused Superman to have a [[hallucination]] in which the entire population of Krypton came to Earth and colonized the already inhabited planet, prompting Jor-El to initiate a Terran-based resistance movement, pitting him against his estranged wife Lara and now-grown son Kal-El, at which point the hallucination ended.<ref>John Byrne: "Return to Krypton", ''Superman'' (vol. 2) #18 (June 1988)</ref>

In ''Superman: The Man of Steel Annual'' #3, "Unforgiven" - an [[Elseworlds]] tale - Jor-El convinces the Science Council to relocate selected Kryptonians to Earth.<ref name="superman18">{{Cite comic | writer = Byrne, John | penciller = Mignola, Mike | inker = [[Karl Kesel|Kesel, Karl]] | story = Return to Krypton | title = [[Superman (vol. 2)|Superman]] | volume = 2 | issue = #18 | date = June 1988 | publisher = DC Comics | location = New York}}</ref>

In a 1999 ''[[Starman (Jack Knight)|Starman]]'' storyline, Jack Knight became lost in time and space, and landed on Krypton several years before its destruction, meeting Jor-El as a young man. The story implies that it was this early meeting with a Terran that led Jor-El to study other worlds and eventually choose Earth as the target for his son's spacecraft; at the story's end, Jack gives Jor-El a device with the coordinates and images of Earth.<ref>{{Cite comic | writer = [[James Robinson (comics)|Robinson, James]], [[David Goyer]] | penciller = Snejbjerg, Peter | inker = [[Keith Champagne|Champagne, Keith]] | story = Midnight in the House of El | title = [[Starman (Jack Knight)|Starman]] | volume = 2 | issue = #51 | date = March 1999 | publisher = DC Comics | location = New York}}</ref>

In a 2001–2002 storyline, an artificial version of the Pre-''Crisis'' Krypton was created in the Phantom Zone by [[Brainiac 13]], a descendant of the original [[Brainiac (character)|Brainiac]] who had traveled back in time to the present.<ref>{{Cite comic | writer = [[Jeph Loeb|Loeb, Jeph]] | cowriters = [[Joe Casey]], [[Mark Schultz (comics)|Mark Schultz]], ''et al.'' | penciller = [[Ed McGuinness|McGuinness, Ed]] | copencillers = [[Duncan Rouleau]], [[Pasqual Ferry|Pascual Ferry]], ''et al.'' | inker = [[Cam Smith (artist)|Smith, Cam]] | coinkers = Marlo Alquiza, Tom Nguyen, ''et al.'' | title = Superman: Return to Krypton | date = March 2004 | publisher = DC Comics | location = New York | id = {{ISBN|1-4012-0194-6}}}}</ref> This version of Krypton was based on Jor-El's favorite Kryptonian historical period.<ref name="action793">{{Cite comic | writer = [[Joe Kelly (comics)|Kelly, Joe]] | penciller = [[Pasqual Ferry|Ferry, Pascual]]<!--spelled "Pascual" in comic's credits--> | inker = [[Cam Smith (artist)|Smith, Cam]] | story = Return to Krypton II Part Four: Dream's End | title = [[Action Comics]] | issue = #793 | date = September 2002 | publisher = DC Comics | location = New York | page = 20}}</ref>