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KRYPTON CHRONICLES #1
Cover Date: September 1981
Cover Price: $0.50
Publication Date: 1981-05-12
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks: Dick Giordano (signed)
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"The Master Builder of Krypton!"
"The Sign of Rao!"
"The War to End Wars!"
Credits:
| Story | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Frank Chiaramonte |
| Lettering | Ben Oda |
| Colors | Carl Gafford |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in DC Comics Presents #39)
Supporting Character(s):
- Supergirl (last in Superman Family #211)
- Morgan Edge (last in Superman Family #208/3; next in issue #3)
- Perry White (last in Superman Family #211/5; next in issue #3)
Villain(s):
- Black Flame (Zora Vi-Lar; identity revealed next issue; last in Adventure Comics #400)
- Yagrum (revealed as a projection next issue)
Other Character(s):
- Morgan Edge's secretary
- Van-Zee (last in Superman Vol. 1 #338)
- Zor-El (last in Superman Vol. 1 #338)
- Alura Zor-El (last in Superman Vol. 1 #338)
- The Drygur Moliom
- Brenn-Bir (last in Action Comics #336)
- Kyl-Ibo (last in Action Comics #336)
- Vas-Quor (last in Action Comics #336)
- Shyla Kor-Onn (last in Superman Family #189/6)
- Other reformed criminals
- Gam-El (an architect, in flashbacks to the Kryptonian years 9873-9874)
- Marg-Rom
- Pym-El (brother of Gam-El)
- Pym-El's security forces
- Kly-Anth (a wealthy property owner in Kandor)
- Kly-Anth's henchmen
- Science Council
- Tala-El (father of Gam-El, in flashbacks to the Kryptonian year 9852)
- Sin-Dar (statesman from the city-state of Strau)
- Hal-Vu (statesman from Erkol)
- Yu-El (a priest in the Temple of Rao and uncle of Tala-El)
- Other unidentified statesmen
- Pir-El (father of Tala-El and General-in-Chief for the Kandor-Kryptonopolis Federation during the Last War, in flashbacks to the Kryptonian year 9846)
- Jes-Mo (Kandor's chief weaponer)
- Citizens of Erkol
- Im-El (a researcher in atomic energy)
- Sorn-El (an agriculturalist)
- Fil-El (a surgeon and grandfather of Sorn-El)
- Nox-El (an entertainer/musician and father of Fil-El)
- Plen-El (Krypton's greatest novelist and father of Nox-El)
- Fedra Shu-El (a legislator, helped found Kandor's first Science Council; aunt of Plen-El)
- Thar-El (a jurist, reformed Krypton's trial system; Fedra Shu-El's brother, father of Plen-El)
- Shu-El (scientist and mathematician, expert on computer theory; father of Fedra Shu-El and Thar-El)
- Wir-El (inventor; grandfather of Shu-El)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Hatu-El (statue)
- Sul-El (statue)
- Val-El (statue)
- other unidentified statues
- Var-El (mentioned only; great-grandfather of Superman)
- Nim-El (mentioned only; uncle of Superman, Jor-El's twin brother)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in the past via flashbacks)
- Urrika
- Lurvan
- Fort Rozz (year 9846)
- Kandor
- Kryptonopolis (destroyed by Urrikan sun-craft in 9846, rebuilt in 9873-9874)
- Krypton (in the past via flashbacks)
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Arctic Circle
- United States of America
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
Comment(s):
- The statues of Superman's ancestors Tala-El, Gam-El, Hatu-El, Sul-El and Val-El first appeared in Adventure Comics #313/2.
- A family tree of the House of El is included in issue #3.
- In the Last War, Erkol and Urrika are the aggressors, launching an aerial robattack on Kandor. There are four different Urrikan cities which each have a building destroyed by the Kandor-Kryptonopolis Federation's disintegrator-spheres. None are the cities are named, but presumably Ekrol is one of them.
- Story continues next issue.
Credits:
- E. Nelson Bridwell (script)
Comment(s):
- A glossary of the names, places, creatures and Kryptonian words used in this issue.