What is the fortress of loneliness?

Last Thursday, 3, DC Studios released another preview for the movie “Superman”, the new feature over the man of steel starring actor David Corenswetand directed by the renowned filmmaker James Gunn (Guardians of the galaxy).

During the stretch we can see a completely injured Superman being taken by Krypto, the extraterrestrial dog adopted by the hero to the Fortress of Solitude, where he is received by a group of Kryptonian robots that help him recover. Look!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eywzqdrsmk

But, do you know what the fortress of loneliness is? Recreation explains you!

What is the fortress of loneliness?

Considered as a home to Kal-El, the fortress of loneliness first came on the 1942 Superman #17, as a normal cave inside a mountain outside Metropolis where Clark used to keep his belongings that he could not keep elsewhere.

However, the term “Fortress of Solitude” was only officially used in the 1949 Superman #58 comic, where the site gained new features, being located in “polar deserts” – but a little different from what we know today.

The version we are used to only emerged in 1958 at the “Action Comics #241” comic during the “Super Key for the Superman Fort”. In it, it is described that the fortress, which is protected by a giant iron door, is built in a cliff located in the Arctic. To get in there, only people with Kryptonian force were able to raise a giant metal key to rotate the lock.

For years, the site served as a kind of museum to the planet of Krypton. Inside, it was possible to see two giant statues of Jor-El and Lara, parents of Superman, holding the globe of his origin planet, as well as being able to find statues of the best childhood friends of Clark, a legion of Kal-El robots, an alien zoo, the ghost zone projector (region where the worst Kryptonian criminals) and the tidal city of Kandor are sheltered) (Kryptonian city that was shrunk by Brainiac).

After the events of the “crisis in the infinite lands” in 1985, the fortress of loneliness was forgotten for a while, until the hero received an old Krypton artifact called “eradicator”, responsible for making the place “grow.”

This is because, in this new era, the fortress also had a series of new modern Kryptonian technology items, including the arrival of Kelex, the robot that belonged to Superman’s father on his home planet, and who gained the function of keeping the place working.