Anyone know what happened to the Powerstone?

[Bored at 3:00AM]

This was an early form of Kryptonite that granted powers to humans like Luthor and Ultra-Humanite during the 1940s.

Was it destroyed?

[Robanker]

It slipped into the multiverse and became the subject for a very rad Sega Dreamcast brawler!







I admit, this one is news to me so I'm curious as well.

[Celgress]

This was an early form of Kryptonite that granted powers to humans like Luthor and Ultra-Humanite during the 1940s.

Was it destroyed?

Hmmm, I'm vaguely aware of its existence but have no idea what was its fate.

Does anyone know the answer?

[Superlad93]

It slipped into the multiverse and became the subject for a very rad Sega Dreamcast brawler!







I admit, this one is news to me so I'm curious as well.

F%$ck. Your cool points just shot through the got damn roof for this one man. This is EXACTLY what came to mind.

Give us a 3rd game you cowards!!!!!

[marshal88]

it became blackrock ? i dunno. the only powerstone i know of was blackrock.

[Kuwagaton]

Blackrock was a whole separate thing.

Apparently the Power stone was blown up in All Star Squadron, but I'm not a jsa fan.

I'm way more into the Capcom one Robanker mentioned than any of the above LMAO. Everyone used to say part 2 was better but I was a little mixed, the first game was largely perfect to me.

[manwhohaseverything]

Superman tricked lex and it fell down.AFter that there isn't much clarity on what happened to it.As far as superman comics go that's the end.As @kuwagaton mentioned all star squadron had it.

[williamtheday]

Ultra-Humanite got it as Delores Winters in 1942. Apparently destroyed when Cyclotron blew up, taking Ultra's Delores body (that had the stone embedded in her forehead) with him.

[Adekis]

As far as I know, during the actual Golden Age, it just got used in two stories, first in Action # 47, then in Superman # 17, which were only a few months apart.

In Superman # 17's Powerstone story, Clark just has the Powerstone at first, apparently having kept it for safekeeping after Action # 47. He looks at it in his apartment, rather than in Superman's Secret Citadel, where Roy Thomas asserts that the Man of Steel keeps it on a pedestal. Roy Thomas's later assertion that CK kept the stone in the Secret Citadel is pretty reasonable in my book, and certainly the story where Ultra steals it (starting in All-Star Squadron # 21) is a pretty fantastic Golden Age homage! But I have to admit, I do kind of prefer the non-retconned version, where all I can do is assume that Superman just takes the thing back to his apartment, haha!

Besides, the All-Star Squadron version portrays Luthor with red hair in his fight with Superman, which is not consistent with the events of the actual Golden Age stories. It's easy enough to dismiss it if you want to, and I suspect most fans would, but to me, it just adds more fuel to my personal crusade to extricate the actual Golden Age and its updated folk-memory, the later Earth Two. But I digress.

The Powerstone makes two Golden Age appearances, and seven Bronze Age appearances in All-Star Squadron, at the end of which story it is apparently destroyed by Cyclotron, in All-Star Squadron Annual # 2, just as WilliamtheDay said above. There is some room for speculation that the Earth Two Powerstone wasn't actually destroyed however, since as noted in that very story, Ultra later (earlier) showed up alive in the 1980s, in the body of a gorilla. If they didn't die, it's very possible the stone didn't go either. On the other hand, if Ultra had the Powerstone, you'd think he would have used it.

In conclusion, All-Star Squadron, is pretty cool.

[marhawkman]

Blackrock was a whole separate thing.

Yeah Blackrock isn't related to Krypton at all. The Powerstone came from Krypton.

[Adekis]

Yeah Blackrock isn't related to Krypton at all. The Powerstone came from Krypton.

What? Is that one of Thomas's retcons that I forgot about? It sure wasn't from Krypton in the Golden Age version; it was an ancient stone found in a cave and presumably it was just plain old magic.

[manwhohaseverything]

What? Is that one of Thomas's retcons that I forgot about? It sure wasn't from Krypton in the Golden Age version; it was an ancient stone found in a cave and presumably it was just plain old magic.

There was something about some buddhist monks.wasn't there?

[marhawkman]

What? Is that one of Thomas's retcons that I forgot about? It sure wasn't from Krypton in the Golden Age version; it was an ancient stone found in a cave and presumably it was just plain old magic.

Hmm... it is said to be "from another planet" but now that I look again... not said to be from Krypton.