Worst Orgin Story Ever
About once every decade there's a retelling of Superman's origin story. Usually with new stuff added. This issue attempts to summarize all the key events in Superman's life from the explosion of Krypton to the Daily Planet job and global citizenship.
Unfortunately, putting all this stuff in one place just shows how much inane flotsam and jetsam the Superman mythos accumulated in the first 30 years. Among other things, this one story includes:
- Zor El believing Jor El about the coming explosion of Krypton - and Jor El being removed from council forcibly by a robot
- The launching of Krypto
- The claim that everything Kryptonian is indestructable on Earth - in the very same panel that we see Kal El's rocket crumpling on impact!
- Lots of stupid, stupid Superbaby stuff where he says stuff like "Me feel strong! Me lift crib!"; "Me lift desk and get rubber ball underneath!" and nobody noticing his activities.
- Logic defying issues having to do with the construction of the Superman suit
- Clark learning to fly by having balloons attached to him and a leash held by Pa Kent
- Clark needs glasses to hide his identity, but his X-Ray vision melts them. Luckily, the super-plexiglass of his super rocket that he came to Earth in just so happened to break apart into 4 perfectly formed circles that he can use as two pairs of X-Ray vision proof glasses, one for young Clark, and one for older Clark.
- The manufacture of the first Superboy robot to fool Lana.
- The use of "super" as an adjective for everything
- Still more Krypto
- etc. etc.