Scarlet Jungle

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A "weird wilderness" on the planet Krypton which teemed with red and purple flora, including huge, maroon, mushroom like fungi (Act No. 310, Mar 1964: "Secret of Kryptonite Six!") and gigantic "moving forests," red in color and vaguely humanoid in form, which literally advanced across the face of the planet "in their yearly migration," forcing Kryptonians in their path to seek shelter in subterranean tunnels until they had passed (S No. 164, Oct 1963: pts. I-II—"The Showdown Between Luthor and Superman!"; "The Super- Duel!").

The Scarlet Jungle was also inhabited by a species of Kryptonian fauna known as the "thought-beast," a large, primitive, rhinocerouslike creature—with a spiked tail and a single large horn protruding from its snout—whose most distinctive feature was a televisionlike "thought-screen" atop its head which flashed picture-images of whatever it was thinking (Act No. 310, Mar 1964: "Secret of Kryptonite Six!").

It is in the Scarlet Jungle that Superman and Jax-Ur locate the rare "spore-dust" needed to cure the "ghastly spotted plague" sweeping Atlantis (Act No. 310, Mar 1964: "Secret of Kryptonite Six!").