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Character » Superman appears in 9591 issues.

Rocketed to Earth as an infant from the doomed planet of Krypton, young Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend mankind from oppression while championing truth, justice, and the American way!

New 52 Superman

#1 Posted by Kyzuko (107 posts) - 5 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

How are his powers different to pre-52 Superman?

#2 Posted by colonyofcells (2038 posts) - 5 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

Powers are about the same. Kryptonite also still around and armor looks like the old spandex so business as usual. Maybe red underwear are now probably worn inside the armor is my guess. The reboot affected the other characters more bec of the desire to let super heroes have lots of girlfriends. Both parents of Superman are now dead whereas post-coie, both parents were alive. Some minority characters added and some changed such as Morgan Edge changed from white to a bald african american.

#3 Posted by Kyzuko (107 posts) - 5 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

I thought the powers would be different since they were sick of Superman being invulnerable to nearly everything and with Kryptonite (and magic) being his only weakness/es.

#4 Posted by Z3RO180 (4085 posts) - 5 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

@Kyzuko:no powers are pretty much the same heat vision super strength invurnability etc etc. also magic is a vurability not a weakness

#5 Edited by Clark_EL (2065 posts) - 5 months, 3 hours ago - Show Bio

Standard stuff Super strength, speed, sight, hearing... X-ray vision, heat vision, and flight.

#6 Posted by Manbehindthewires (344 posts) - 5 months, 3 hours ago - Show Bio

Judging by how they discuss it in Superboy #16 I get the impression Kryptonite may be more powerful now...

#7 Posted by colonyofcells (2038 posts) - 5 months, 2 hours ago - Show Bio

In Action Comics, green kryptonite kills via blood poisoning, red kryptonite maybe also kills but includes hallucinations, blue kryptonite maybe also kills by causing depression.

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