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Titling the character The Superman, Siegel and Shuster offered it to Consolidated Book Publishing, who had published a 48-page black-and-white comic book entitled Detective Dan: Secret Operative #48. Siegel and Shuster each compared this character to Slam Bradley, an adventurer the pair had created for Detective Comics #1 (March 1937). [22]
With Stan Lee, he co-created the villain Plantman (Strange Tales #113). He also scripted the " Human Torch " feature in Strange Tales #112–113 (Sept.–Oct. 1963), introducing the teenaged Torch's high school girlfriend, Doris Evans; and, under his own name, a backup feature starring the X-Men member Angel , which ran in Marvel Tales and Ka ...
Jerry Siegel — co-creator, writer. Co-created several secondary characters including Lois Lane, Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor, Perry White, James Bartholomew "Jimmy" Olsen, Jonathan and Martha Kent, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Lena Luthor and George Taylor, among others.
"Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" is a 1969 essay in which science fiction author Larry Niven details the problems that Superman would face in sexual intercourse and reproduction with a human woman, using arguments based on humorous reconciliation between physics, biology and the abilities of Kryptonians as presented in Superman comic books.
The team's goal was to create an a being designed to look exactly like Superman and be the closest genetic equivalent to a Kryptonian based on their DNA research. Carl Packard, the project head of Auron's creation, was the project head for the clone's creation and was given full authority to explore whatever methods to create the clone while ...
The Post-Crisis Kristin Wells, Karsta War-Ul. In Superman: The Third Kryptonian, it is revealed that a third Kryptonian (that is, after Clark and Kara) is on Earth.It is explained that the third Kryptonian does not refer to Chris Kent (Superman's foster son, General Zod's biological child), Power Girl (an Earth-Two Kryptonian) or Krypto (a canine Kryptonian).
In The Man of Steel writer John Byrne rewrote the Superman mythos, again reducing Superman's powers, which writers had slowly re-strengthened, and revised many supporting characters, such as making Lex Luthor a billionaire industrialist rather than a mad scientist, and making Supergirl an artificial shapeshifting organism because DC wanted ...