Superman (Earth-One) details on the Earth-One Superman's origin and childhood/teenage years, see Superboy (Kal-El)." The Earth-One Superman's origin story was retold in various stories; the most prominent retellings were in "Superman" (volume 1) #146 (July 1961), "Limited Collectors' Edition" #C-31 (November–December 1974), and "Action Comics" #500 (October 1979). As recounted in these retellings, Superman was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton. Upon learning of Krypton's imminent destruction, his father Jor-El and mother Lara sent Kal-El in an experimental rocket to Earth moments before the planet exploded. Landing outside of the town of Smallville, Kal-El was found and adopted by an elderly farm
Superman robots stronghold of that world's Superman is protected by fearsome-looking insectoid robots. During an attempted robbery, one hero makes a comment about "Superman's robots". Superman robots The Superman robots are fictional robots from the DC Comics Universe. The robots resembled Superman in appearance and abilities. Superman robots played a particularly dominant role in late 1950s and 1960s era Superman comics, when readers were first introduced to Superman possessing various robot duplicates. These robots each possessed a fraction of the Man of Steel's powers, and were sometimes used to substitute for him on missions (such as those where kryptonite was present) or