Kandor
Kandor is a city that features in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
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
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)
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)
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
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- Adventure Comics:
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