Analysis Notes
| 9:2 |
The serpentine Green Lantern next to Hal Jordan/Sinestro appears to be an Orandan serpent. |
| 17:4 |
From the shape of the bottle, the city in the foreground must be Rikkon Dor. Perhaps refraction shifted the color from this angle. |
| 17:5 |
Indications are that this skip-week event is meant to be in continuity. The details about an android version of Brainiac collecting shrunken cities and where this might actually fit into Superman’s history are unclear. |
| 18:4 |
Don’t even think about the science involved in shrunken objects that end up smaller than a hydrogen atom. |
| 19:2 |
Decades? Is it possible that the elder Vril Dox was involved in city collecting long before he was introduced into the Superman continuity? Or is this a case of time passing much quicker for the shrunken Daxamites: a week outside is a year inside, maybe? |
| 19:2-3 |
“Rikkon Dor,” eh? Also readable as “Ri-Kandor”. Note that Kandor was Krypton’s first capital city, until Brainiac stole it. |
| 20:1 |
Hey, it’s Silver Age logic: of course it’s flawless. (This story does raise the interesting issue of why the Atom never visited Kandor, and why Superman never recruited him to help restore the city. The real-world answer is the Superman and Atom were controlled by different editors, of course.) |
| 20:4 |
How much time elapsed while Atom/Chronos- was in the bottle? It appeared to be a lot longer for him than for the people on the outside. (The 1:50 compression ration posited above would stretch minutes outside into hours inside, which would fit well here.) |
| 21:5 |
Oooh. Peer pressure. |
| 21:6 |
Atom/Chronos- is helping stomp the cities: guess he was a monster after all. |
