Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum # 1 Foil Variant 2025 NM

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum # 1, released on August 13, 2025, is the debut of a five-issue DC Black Label miniseries created by the team behind the critically acclaimed Ice Cream Man. The series reimagines Superman's relationship with his home planet through experimental and psychological storytelling. 

• The Discovery: Superman's robots discover a meteoroid cluster containing four never-before-seen varieties of Kryptonite in deep space.
• The Mission: To prevent these rocks from falling into the hands of villains like Lex Luthor, Superman enlists Batman to help him scientifically test and catalog the effects of each new shard.
• New Varieties: The first issue identifies the new forms as Purple, Cobalt, Speckled, and Rainbow Kryptonite.
• Purple Kryptonite Effect: Superman tests the purple shard first, which scrambles his perception of time, causing him to experience "flickers" of the far future out of order. 
• Writer: W. Maxwell Prince
• Artist: Martín Morazzo
• Colorist: Chris O'Halloran 
• "Home Hurts": The series explores the existential irony that pieces of Kal-El's former home are the only things that can kill him, treating the radioactive shards as symbols of trauma.
• Silver Age Homage: While it features mature (Ages 17+) themes, it draws inspiration from 1950s/60s "wacky" Superman lore, including a robot-manned Fortress of Solitude and Krypto the Superdog.