small enough to be lodged in Jimmy Olsen's camera with his noticing it. ITEM: Although it's pre-Crisis, in "The Last Days of Superman", he was nearly killed by a mote of Green K. It's not a problem impossible to solve, but it would be beyond the capabilities of your average bad guy. The aerodynamics of a bullet, to ensure its accuracy, require more than just sticking a small piece of Kryptonian metal on the end of a piece of green kryptonite. But you have the problem of how someone would construct such a bullet, given that Kryptonian metal would be immune to forming, shaping, or moulding. For that matter, a bullet composed entirely of a Kryptonian metal would do the job just as lethally (given that the shooter was a good marksman). I can't see any reason why such a round wouldn't penetrate Superman's skin. I was intrigued, Philip, by your suggestion of a bullet with a tip constructed of a Kryptonian metal and the rest of green kryptonite. My refrain "Misinformation begets misinformation" applied, even before the Internet age. And from that point on, many, many readers consider him as just that, and not an honorary member. Then Denny O'Neil writes "Snapper Carr-Super-Traitor", JLA # 77 (Dec., 1969), in which he constantly refers to Snap as the JLA's "mascot". For almost a decade, he was clearly established as an honorary member of the Justice League.
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What is remarkable to me is that, for some reason-despite the facts having been established for years-as soon as one of them was unknowingly (or not-caringly) contradicted by one of the New Turk writers, the readers accepted the contradiction as "fact". But I would bet a good chunk of money that the fellow who wrote the story in Action Comics # 900 about a Secret Service sniper with a kryptonite bullet in his rifle believed that kryptonite bullets had always been able to pierce Superman's body. Granted, the rules were all changed after the Crisis, and what Mort wrought doesn't apply to the post-Crisis version of the Man of Steel. From then on, more and more writers assumed that kryptonite bullets could, indeed, penetrate Superman's body. Somehow, that one story changed the paradigm.
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One might argue, so what? It was only one story. A Superboy or Superman story from '71 or '72 showed the Caped Kryptonian being shot by a Kryptonite bullet, in total disregard of what had long been established. The New Turk writers who came on board DC around 1970 or so committed several small errors in continuity that had been established for years, and this was one of the first transgressions. It was this fact-or rather, the ignorance of it-which started me away from comics in the early '70's. This fact was validated in a number of stories, such as "The Fury of the Kryptonian Killer", from Superman # 195 (Apr., 1967).
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And a Kryptonite bullet could never penetrate Superman's super-skin-though the radiation from it could harm him. Thus, it can be broken, carved, and melted. Kryptonite is the only thing from Krypton that does not become indestructable under a yellow sun. However, he would be weakened by the fragments if he remained within their range. KRYPTONITE bullets or shells would merely shatter against his invulnerable body. Though exposure to KRYPTONITE rays can harm SUPERBOY, a bullet made of it cannot penetrate his skin, because, unlike other materials from KRYPTON, KRYPTONITE is not indestructable. Mort Weisinger made it clear in both his oft-reprinted "Superboy Legend" and "Superman Legend" textpieces: As we recalls it, exposure to Kryptonite could kill Superman, but a weapon made of Kryptonite couldn't penetrate his skin.