| Characters |
Superman (brief origin); Lois Lane; Brainiac (villain, intro); Professor Kimda; Superboy (flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Superboy (flashback); Kandor (intro); Fortress of Solitude |
| Synopsis |
While Clark Kent and Lois Lane are passengers on an experimental rocket, the rocket is snagged by the alien Brainiac. Clark switches to Superman, but can't penetrate Brainiac's force shield, so moves the rocket out of the control of Brainiac's ship. Brainiac turns to his primary goal, which is to shrink and bottle the great cities of Earth in order to restore them to normal size and repopulate his own planet, whose native people have all been wiped out by a plague. Superman returns to Metropolis, expecting Brainiac to also snatch that city, and through that gain entrance into Brainiac's ship. Once inside, he finds a bottle with a shrunken Kryptonian city. He enters the bottle, but loses his powers under its artificial gravity. There he seeks the help of a scientist who helps him plan a way to restore the cities of Earth while Brainiac lies in suspended animation for the trip back to his own planet. But unfortunately there isn't enough power to restore Kandor, so Superman places it in his Fortress until he can find a way, as Brainiac's ship rockets away, with Brainiac unaware that he is returning home empty-handed. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Otto Binder |
| Pencils |
Al Plastino |
| Inks |
Al Plastino |
| Reprinted |
in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #2 (1960); in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #217 (June-July 1969); in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn (1983); in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Superman: The Bottle City of Kandor (DC, 2007 series) #[nn] |