Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Superheros Origins: Superman

Superhero Origins: Superman





Superman is one of the first superheroes to have existed and is a comic still running to this day. Superman was published by DC comics created by an American writer Jerry Siegel and an artist named Joe Shuster. Superman has been considered one of the American Cultural Icons. 

History: Superman first appeared on June 1938's first issue of Action Comics. But orginally Superman was a bald supervillain who had telepathic powers. As soon as superman was released he became very popular in fact Superman had become popular to the extent that in 1942, with sales of the character's three titles standing at a combined total of over 1.5 million.

Bio: Superman or Kal-El or Clark Kent was born on the 29th of February. He was raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent in old town called Smallville. He then moved to Metropolis and started working for the Daily Planet where he meets Lois Lane. Other characters have been in his stories like Krypto the Superdog, Supergirl, Superboy.

Powers: Superman's powers consist of super-strength, freeze breath, lazer vision, x-ray vision, flight and super speed. Also when Kal-El goes closer to the sun he gets stronger and stronger, strong enough to move planets easily. But his weakness as you may know is Kryptonite the rock coming from his home planet.

Enemies: His main enemy that everyone knows is Lex Luthor yeh that bald guy [Did you know he originally had red hair]. Lex is the CEO of LexCorp and is considered a rogue, scientific genius. [Did you know he originally had red hair] There are other villains though like the alien android Braniac considered to be the second most effective superman villain. Then there's Darkseid who actually kills superman.  Then theres Bizarro and other enemies.


As you see he is wearing blue spandex with a big rad cape. He has his trademark 'S' symbol right above his belt and his big, red underpants. Followed again by some spandex and red boots.



Thank You for Reading


Sources: Wikipedia.

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