Jor-El I (Earth-One)

Aliases: Jor-El I , Jor-El I
Universe: Earth-One

First Appearance: Superman (Volume 1) #103
Last Appearance: Krypton Chronicles #1

History:

Like many in his family, Jor-El was a respected scientist and a patriarch of the noble House of El. to the amazement of his colleagues, he succesfully created an experimental rocket-ship capable of traveling through hyperspace. Jor-El personally embarked upon a one-man journey to the Sol System wherein he discovered a small habitable world known as Earth. Returning to Krypton he kept extensive notes concerning Earth and passed them down to his first son, Jor-El II. Knowledge of this planet inspired the son to one day send his own child Kal-El to Earth when catastrophe struck the planet Krypton, ending all life on the tortured world.

Notes:

• This version of Jor-El I (Earth-One), including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the Multiverse in the 1985-86 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and is now considered apocryphal.
• The WB television series Smallville featured an episode wherein a character named Jor-El traveled to Earth many years ago. However, the TV version of Jor-El was in fact Kal-El's father, not his grand-father.

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Appearances:

• Krypton Chronicles #1

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