abstract
| - The lead box is a small lead box given to Lex Luthor on his 12th birthday. When no one showed up for Lex's party, he was inconsolable until Lionel presented him with the box. His father claimed it was forged from the armor of St. George, a dragon slayer who put into the box his strength, faith, fears and doubts. Many years later, Lex presented the box to his new friend Clark Kent in which he had placed Lana Lang's missing meteor rock necklace and encouraged Clark to tell Lana that he had a crush on her. However, Clark realized that in addition to the material being immune to his X-ray vision, lead masked the ill effects of kryptonite radiation from him. He returned the necklace to Lana but kept the box. Clark and his parents keep a large chunk of meteor rock in the box to use in case of an emergency if Clark ever needs to be subdued. Clark also understood, particularly after the events of "Leech", the value of having some Kryptonite on hand if ever encountering a being possessing Kryptonian powers. The box's ability to block radiation appears to extend to other variants of Kryptonite as was demonstrated when it was used to conatin a piece of Blue kryptonite.
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