The bottled city of Kandor in Action Comics #866 art by Gary Frank and Jon Sibal. 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. Krypton is usually portrayed in comics as the home of a fantastically advanced civilization, which is destroyed when the planet explodes. Krypton appears in the 1978 film Superman, the 2006 film Superman Returns, and the 2013 film Man of Steel, set in the DC Extended Universe. Krypton also makes an appearance in several television series such as Adventures of Superman, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Superman: The Animated Series, Smallville, Supergirl, and Krypton. Kryptonians were the dominant species on Krypton. It has been consistently described as having been destroyed shortly after Superman's escape from the planet, although the exact details of its destruction vary by time period and writers. Krypton is also the native world of Supergirl, Krypto the Superdog, Beppo the Super-Monkey, Power Girl (in her case, an alternate-universe version designated "Krypton-Two"), and the supervillain General Zod. The planet was first mentioned in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) and made its first appearance in Superman #1 (1939). The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was named after the chemical element krypton. Krypton is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, most commonly appearing or mentioning in stories starring the superhero Superman as the world he came from. The planet Krypton prior to its cataclysmic end.
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