And comets, meteors and rogue planets!
Here’s one other thing I realized in my studying of the Action Comics starting with #200. Superman seemed as if it would possibly perchance perchance well spend half of his time saving Earth from one asteroid or a spread of bit of cosmic particles after one other.
Action #204:
It took awhile for the next one to come back along, however after that it used to be Katie bar the door. Action #221:
Action #222:
And #223:
Action #227:
#229:
Action #232 featured no longer one, however two shut to impacts:
In some instances, these asteroids/comets/meteors performed capabilities equal to Crimson Kryptonite later within the Silver Age. Let’s declare, the comet in #221 imparted to Superman a magnetic vitality that used to be helpful at times, however gave him complications in his secret identification as Clark Kent. The meteor in #232 ended up giving Superman the powers of Superman Junior. The meteorite in #204 seemed as if it would possibly perchance perchance well drive Superman to invent all his neat-feats while standing on his head. And the comet in #227 used to be view to contain induced his X-ray imaginative and prescient to change into uncontrollable.
I’m going to search if there are any extra examples of this. I appear to recall that indubitably one of the important episodes of the Superman TV show within the 1950s additionally featured Superman saving Metropolis from an asteroid.