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The supervillain Doomsday was revealed in the 1990s as a being genetically engineered by Bertron, an alien scientist, on an ancient Krypton; this happened hundreds of thousands of years before the rise of Krypton's civilization (this fact explains how Kryptonians obtained their advanced technology). read more

Krypton is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The planet is the native world of Superman and is named after the element krypton. The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was first referred to in Action Comics #1 (June 1938). read more

Krypton itself was the main subject of the late 1980s The World of Krypton miniseries (not to be confused with the 1979 miniseries of the same name). This miniseries was written by Byrne and illustrated by Mike Mignola, and filled in much of Krypton's new history. read more

New Krypton was a more-developed culture — more appropriately, series of cultures — than those traditionally appearing in Superman stories, built of representatives of every version of the planet that had existed previously, explained away by depicting them as co-existing, inter-dependent guilds that follow different philosophies: the science guild, the creative guild, the artistic guild, and so on. read more

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