Something I just started wondering about the other day. How often has Gold K actually been used to remove Kryptonian superpowers from one character or another? I'm willing to count stories that are Pre-COIE or Post-COIE, as long as the story was evidently supposed to be "in continuity" when first published. I don't want anything that was obviously an "Imaginary Story" or "Elseworlds."
I'll name just two examples to start the ball rolling. (I can think of a couple of others, but I figure I ought to restrain myself.) Both of these happened before COIE, in stories featuring the Earth-1 Superman.
"Action Comics #500." Lex Luthor creates a clone of Superman, carefully adjusting the clone's memories to make him think of Lex Luthor as a trustworthy but tragically misunderstood humanitarian, and the clone and the original fight. The real Superman finally manages to remove the clone's super-powers by exposing him to a chunk of Gold K.
"DC Comics Presents #55." The Parasite has been siphoning off Superman's powers. Air Wave II ("Hal Jordan," the juvenile cousin of the Green Lantern of the same name) uses a chunk of Gold K to remove those powers from the Parasite. Been a long time since I last read that story, but I think Air Wave explicitly asked Superman at the end if the "permanent" effect of Gold K exposure would mean the Parasite could never again absorb Kryptonian superpowers, and Superman said (approximately): "I wouldn't count on it."
How many other times have we seen someone get de-powered by Gold K?
I'll name just two examples to start the ball rolling. (I can think of a couple of others, but I figure I ought to restrain myself.) Both of these happened before COIE, in stories featuring the Earth-1 Superman.
"Action Comics #500." Lex Luthor creates a clone of Superman, carefully adjusting the clone's memories to make him think of Lex Luthor as a trustworthy but tragically misunderstood humanitarian, and the clone and the original fight. The real Superman finally manages to remove the clone's super-powers by exposing him to a chunk of Gold K.
"DC Comics Presents #55." The Parasite has been siphoning off Superman's powers. Air Wave II ("Hal Jordan," the juvenile cousin of the Green Lantern of the same name) uses a chunk of Gold K to remove those powers from the Parasite. Been a long time since I last read that story, but I think Air Wave explicitly asked Superman at the end if the "permanent" effect of Gold K exposure would mean the Parasite could never again absorb Kryptonian superpowers, and Superman said (approximately): "I wouldn't count on it."
How many other times have we seen someone get de-powered by Gold K?
