Kandor

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Kandor is a city that features in DC Comics.

History

Origin

Kandorians taking the Bottle City in Superman v1 #158.

The Kandorian scientist Rad-Zee requested that human scientist Ray Palmer come to the Bottle City in order to consult him due to his expertise on size control. Whilst on Kandor, an experiment led to all the energy within the Kryptonian city leaving and entering the frame of a human robot constructed by the entertainment mogul Morty Rivers for a movie. This machine animated by the super-science energy from Kandor became known as Junk-Man and went on a rampage where it was attracted to the greatest source of its power which was in the Bottle City. Thus, it travelled to the Fortress of Solitude where it battled Superman only for Green Arrow to use shrinking technology to send the robot into Kandor. Once in the Kryptonian environment, it lost its power and was re-programmed as a robot butler. (Action Comics v1 #455)

New Krypton

New Kandor in Superman: New Krypton Special v1 #1.

The New 52

Following the Flashpoint, a new continuity was created that provided an altered backstory to Kandor. It was held as the greatest dream on Krypton with its brilliant doctors having cure the Sky Flu and its mighty warriors apprehended the criminal scientist Dr. Xa-Du. The Kandorians were said to had been a proud people who dismissed and laughed at Jor-El when he told them that their homeworld was going to explode. (Batman/Superman v1 #19)

The Phantom King Xa-Du took over the Bottled City and brainwashed its inhabitants with the Living Death where he directed them to hate the House of El. Thus, when Superman found the missing Kandor, the Kandorians attacked him until Kal-El along with Batman managed to defeat Xa-Du by damaging his equipment forcing him back to the Phantom Zone. With his defeat, the Kandorians were returned to normal but 3% of the population still remained afflicted with the Living Death that included Kal-El's maternal family in his aunt Kela and grandmother Mother Prime Mara Lor-Van who had an intense hatred of Superman. As a result, these victims were all placed in temporary comas until the Kandorians could cure them of the brainwashing. (Batman/Superman v1 #20)

Overview

A number of places within Kandor included:

• Sky Palace : a large floating dome structure suspended in mid-air by anti-gravity forces and accessible by jet taxi. (Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane v1 #59)
• Cosmo Machine Shop : (Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane v1 #134)
• Kandorian Penal Complex : (Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane v1 #134)
• Nightcave : a secret subterranean hide-out used by Kal-El and Jimmy Olsen when they operated as the masked crime-fighters Nightwing and Flamebird. (Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen v1 #69)

One of the regions was the garden district. (Batman/Superman v1 #19)

As a Bottled City, Brainiac had constructed gravity generators to prevent damage during any form of transport. (Batman/Superman v1 #19)

Quarrels were settled in a fair duel using force charged swords with the fight held at the ancient arena. (World's Finest v1 #143)

Inhabitants

• Rad-Zee : a male scientist that was involved in size control and energy research who consulted Ray Palmer but the result led to a force of energy animating a human robot that became the villain Junk-Man. (Action Comics v1 #455)
• Vital :
• Dazor : (Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane v1 #134)
• Lura-Ux : (Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane v1 #134)
• Yllura :
• Arvor :
• Van-Tarr : a renegade Kandorian who started a religious commune where he called himself as the Master. (Action Comics v1 #406)
• Dazor :
• Lura-Ux :
• Vas-Quor : (Action Comics v1 #336)
• Brenn-Bir : (Action Comics v1 #336)
• Kyl-Ibo : (Action Comics v1 #336)
• Kimda :

Notes

• Kandor was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino where it made its first appearance in Action Comics v1 #242 (July 1958).

In other media

Television

• In Legion of Super-Heroes, Kandor appeared in the animated series where it was shown in the episode "Message in the Bottle". It was stated to had been the capital of Krypton long ago. When Krypton facing destruction, Jor-El constructed the Messenger that was stationed at Kandor. However, the Terror also known as Brainiac arrived where he shrunk Kandor into a Bottle City for his collection. It remained within Brainiacs collection until at some point Superman saved the Bottle City but failed to re-enlarge it. He kept it within the Fortress of Solitude and had a shrinking ray allowing him to visit and had a power suit to maintain his abilities as the Bottle City had a simulated red sun. In the 31st century, Imperiex and his forces entered the city to claim the Messenger but was opposed by the 21st century time displaced Superman who was aided by the Legion of Super-Heroes. After Imperiex was destroyed feared, Brainiac 5 learnt how to re-enlarge Kandor from his ancestor Brainiac 1.0. With this knowledge, they used the Messenger to recreate Krypton with Kandor and it's restored Kryptonian population placed on that world.

Films

• In All-Star Superman, the Bottle City of Kandor made an appearance in the animated film where it was said to had been the greatest city of Krypton that had been shrunken by Brainiac. It was kept in the Fortress of Solitude where Superman spent many years to restore its inhabitants but failed. When Superman learnt he was dying, among his last acts was taking the Bottle City to a suitable planet for them to colonize with the journeying taking him much time to accomplish.
• In Superman: Unbound, Kandor made an appearance in the animated film that was an adaptation of the comic storyline. It was said to had been the capital of Krypton at one point until Brainiac arrived on the planet. Upon his arrival, he dispatched numerous probes that attacked the populace where they killed a number of the populace in order to collect information to determine who held importance in the city. This assault was responded to by the Kryptonian military who were powerless to stop the advanced alien probes. At the time, Zor-El along with his wife Allura and daughter Kara Zor-El were visiting relatives in Kandor when they quickly made their escape to evade the alien invaders. They managed to leave Kandor just as Brainiac deployed a dome that trapped the remaining populace inside of it whereupon he shrunk the settlement into a Bottle City for his collection. He departed into space to continue his collection of other cities though Zor-El had begun study of the probes destroyed in order to find a weakness in Brainiac. However, this simply attracted the attention of Brainiac who captured the settlement he was residing in with the Kryptonians there being incorporated into the Kandor bottle. Superman would battle Brainiac in an effort to stop the villain from finding Earth but he was defeated and integrated into the Krypton specimen of Kandor. Once there, he learnt of the plight of the people where he also met his aunt and uncle after which he orchestrated a plot to escape. After returning to normal size, he proceeded with taking the Bottle City of Kandor away from Brainiac who pursued the hero to Earth.
• In Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Kandor was briefly mentioned in the live-action movie set in the same universe as Man of Steel. After Lex Luthor gained access to the crashed Kryptonian ship, he took the dead Zod's body into the vessels genesis chamber that identified him as General Zod of Kandor.

Other

Appearances

• Superman:
• Adventure Comics:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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