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Superman managed to retrieve the entire city of Kandor from Brainiac, enlarging it near his Fortress of Solitude in the North Pole.

New Krypton is the first part of a large storyline by Geoff Johns published across Superman titles, starting in 2008. Picking up where Superman: Brainiac left off, Superman and Earth have to come to terms with the new planet, New Krypton, with some 100000 enlarged Kandorians. This conflict was carried over into Superman: World of New Krypton, Codename: Patriot, Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton and Superman: War of the Supermen.

Synopsis

Superman managed to retrieve the entire city of Kandor from Brainiac, enlarging it near his Fortress of Solitude in the North Pole.

Although distracted by the recent death of his adoptive father, Jonathan Kent, Superman attempts to aid the Kryptonians in their assimilation with the rest of the Earth supported by his cousin Supergirl, something very few Kryptonians seem interested in, including the city's leaders, Zor-El and Alura, Supergirl's parents.

After the first televised meeting between the President of the United States and a delegation from Kandor is interrupted by a rampaging Doomsday, Zor-El and Alura form a task force determined to preemptively end any future threat to Kandor by capturing Superman's worst villains and trapping them in the Phantom Zone. However, several human police officers are killed when they refuse to hand over the Parasite, enraging Superman.

At the same time, Lex Luthor, who has been recruited by General Sam Lane to halt the Kryptonian "invasion", gains control of Brainiac and unleashes his robot army from within the depths of the alien's spaceship, currently being held in Kandor. During the fight, Metallo and Reactron, who are working for Luthor and General Lane, are brought into Kandor as Trojan horses containing Kryptonite. Reactron manages to kill Supergirl's father, Zor-El.

Alura's anger causes her to denounce humanity. Members of the Justice League and Justice Society of America arrive in Kandor, lead by the Guardian demanding the city turn over those who murdered the police officers, and a large-scale battle erupts, with Superman in the middle. It only ends when Kryptonian scientists manage to use Brainiac's technology to lift Kandor off the Earth and grow an entirely new planet underneath it, called "New Krypton," on the other side of the solar system, directly opposite the Earth, and therefore hidden by the sun.

Alura tells Superman that he is not welcome on New Krypton, although Supergirl takes up residence there with her mother, feeling Alura will need her emotional support in the wake of Zor-El's death. In the end, Alura frees General Zod from the Phantom Zone to help her lead their people.

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Build up

 Main article: Superman: The Coming of Atlas

 Main article: Superman: Brainiac

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New Krypton


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