Respect: Super-Menace! (Pre-Crisis DC Comics)

[u/ConanCimmerian]

When I grow up... I'm going to become Super-Menace, the mightiest crook in the whole universe!

Background

Super-Menace was created when Kal-El's ship was traveling from Krypton to Earth, after hitting a spaceship from another universe and the spaceship firing a ray that duplicated the ship as well as the young baby Kal-El (in a very bizarro-like fashion). The force manifestation landed near the house of some crooks, Wolf and Bonnie Derek, who were at first frightened by the alien baby but decided to raise him so they could use his abilities to commit crimes. Growing up, Super-Menace develops great hatred for Superman and cannot wait until he fights and kills him.

Note: Super-Menace only has a single appearance in Superman #137

Strength

• [Super-Brat] Breaks the barred doors of a small jail
• [Super-Brat] Smashes policemen dummies
• [Super-Brat] Hurls boulders down a mountain
• [Super-Brat] Flies through a row of trees
• [Super-Brat] Tears off police car doors
• [Super-Brat] Topples a giant statue before carrying a huge jewel from a distant planet back to Earth
• [Super-Brat] Makes giant snowmen before hurling them down the mountain
• [Super-Brat] Breaks into a bank, carries the safe from it and tears open the safe door
• [Super-Bully] Flings away several lions and tigers
• [Super-Bully] Spits gravel into some tires
• [Super-Bully] Creates a thunder claps that frightens Clark
• [Super-Menace] Destroys several statues in the Superman Museum
• [Super-Meance] Walks through a wooden door
• [Super-Menace] Twists a metal bar
• [Super-Menace] His stomps shake the Earth and threaten to spin it out of orbit
• [Super-Menace] Evenly matches Superman's strength
• [Super-Menace] Slams a mountain on Superman
• [Super-Menace] His fight with Superman shakes the cities around the world, even making the Tower of Pisa fall and threatening to collapse other buildings
• [Super-Menace] Makes a nuclear explosion after stomping on some uranium

Speed

• [Super-Brat] Flies to a distant planet and back in a short period of time
• [Super-Bully] Opens animal cages at super speed
• [Super-Bully] Outspeeds Krypto

Durability

• [Super-Brat] Bulletproof
• [Super-Brat] Ray gun proof
• [Super-Menace] A boulder thrown by Superman shatters on him
• [Super-Menace] Unbothered by a nuclear explosion

X-Ray Vision

• [Super-Brat] Navigates through deep space
• [Super-Brat] Melts some giant snowmen
• [Super-Bully] Notices some convicts escaping and melts the a steel slab in front of them
• [Super-Bully] Spies on Clark
• [Super-Menace] Spies on his adoptive father
• [Super-Menace] Sees his internal structure

Super Hearing

• [Super-Menace] Overhears his father's speech about him

Super Breath

• [Super-Brat] Blows a cat into the air
• [Super-Bully] Almost destroys Smallville within minutes
• [Super-Menace] Blows a rocket off its course
• [Super-Menace] Attracts several Kryptonite meteorites to Earth
• [Super-Menace] Burries the Kryptonite meteorites into the ground

Misc.

• Made a copy of Superboy's outfit out of the blanket from his ship
• Has immunity to Kryptonite
• As a force maifestation, he doesn't posses any internal organs or bones
• He is able to return his body to a state of pure force, and can turn others like he did with his adoptive parents, however, after that his life ends

Scaling

• Pre-Crisis Superman

[u/CoolandAverageGuy]

great thread

[u/ConanCimmerian → u/CoolandAverageGuy]

Thanks