Thousands of people will travel to Metropolis, Ill., to celebrate the "Man of Steel" this weekend for the Superman Celebration 2009. You can celebrate at home by creating your very own kryptonite.

Filmmaker James Gunn delivered many twists and turns with the DCU Superman movie. The biggest surprise involved a plot twist ...

Superman has a number of Achilles heels that have nothing to do with the one we all know about. Here are 12 of these ...

A metric ton of Man of Steel comics, cartoons, movies, and TV made up the inspirations behind James Gunn's new Superman.

Superman is able to stop the meteor, but it breaks up and showers the Earth in Kryptonite. Superman Unlimited #1’s cover boasts that this is the beginning of the Emerald Age, and things change ...

Blue Kryptonite, introduced in the DC Comics universe in Superman (1939) #140, is also known as Bizarro Kryptonite due to its unique radiation effects on Superman’s long-time nemesis, Bizarro.

"How can someone not think it’s real? I don’t understand," said Gunn in an interview with Josh Horowitz on the Sad Happy Confused Podcast. "So, in the test screenings people were like ‘is it real?’ ...

Maybe periwinkle kryptonite, for Disco Superman, just in time for the 1978 Richard Donner film. For us mortals, "kryptonite" works without the cape and the big red "S." ...

Kryptonite officially debuted in Superman #69 in 1949, but it wasn’t green back then. The deadly hue came years later when Superman was sabotaged aboard a ship lined with lead walls.

This first Krypton was, like the majority of superhero comics at the time, entirely populated by white faces — a fact that led to an embarrassing story in 1971’s Superman.No. 239 that revealed ...

Article Summary. Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum is a 5-issue Black Label series by the Ice Cream Man creative team. Four new forms of Kryptonite are discovered, each with mysterious effects on ...