Showcase Presents: Superman #1
In "The Super-Key to Fort Superman," a 2005 Showcase Presents: Superman tale written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Al Plastino, Clark and Lois face off against the alien menace Brainiac during a test flight of a new rocket. When Brainiac begins shrinking Earth’s cities to store them in bottles, Superman infiltrates the villain’s ship, discovers the bottled Kandor, and uses the city’s scientist to help restore the planet—leaving Kandor in his Fortress as the final piece of the puzzle. The cover by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye captures the epic scale of the showdown.
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While on an experimental rocket, Clark and Lois encounter the alien Brainiac, who plans to shrink and bottle the great cities of Earth and then use them to repopulate his planet. Superman gets inside Brainiac’s ship when the villain snatches Metropolis and there finds a bottle with the Kryptonian city of Kandor. He enters the bottle and with the help of a scientist there restores the cities of Earth while Brainiac lies in suspended animation for his trip home. Because there is not enough power to restore Kandor, Superman places the city in his Fortress, as Brainiac rockets away empty-handed.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).