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    Character » Superman appears in 18939 issues.

    Sent to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton, Kal-El was adopted by the loving Kent family and raised in America's heartland as Clark Kent. Using his immense solar-fueled powers, he became Superman to defend mankind against all manner of threats while championing truth, justice, and the American way!

    Outlier, contextual, or legit?

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    #1  Edited By Cognitive
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    A comic I read years ago recently bugs me a lot...

    In Superman #675 - Shadows Linger, Part Two: The Long Road, Clark flew into the Galactic Golem's body and destroyed several planetoids and ultimately busted the one on the forehead which served as its power source.

    The question is : Does this make him a multi-planet buster? I've read in those issues that the planetoid on Golem's head was a replica of Daxam.

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    However, several wikis I've visited claimed it being a ''miniature mass''(dc database) or a ''small replica''(CV wiki), and the explosion did not destroy the Earth...

    Was there texts I missed? Or is this feat simply considered an outlier like the shadow moon?

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    It seems contextual, but I would have to re-read the storyline to be sure.

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    Nobody seems to want to accept it on here.

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    I'd say it looks legit

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    @cognitive: It's contextual, it was mentioned twice in the comic that the "planets" inside the Golem were as you correctly identified "planetoids". The term planetoid is synonymous with asteroid actually. And if I'm not mistaken I once saw @lvenger say how the writer of the story actually stated that the planetoids inside the Golem where the same size as they were drawn, not so much bigger than Superman himself.

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