Superman is a fictional character and superhero, also known as Clark Kent and Kal-El . Created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel , he first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and rapidly became a popular and well-known comic book icon. This article is...
The first and most important comic book superhero, Superman looms large not only in comic books but in all of twentieth-century American popular culture. Among the few American characters instantly recognizable in virtually every corner of the globe,...
00-00-0000 SUPERMAN -- Kent blasts two homers By JOE RODERICK, Knight Ridder Newspapers Date: 10-25-2002, Friday Section: SPORTS Edtion: Two Star B. ALSO IN. Two Star P SAN FRANCISCO - Two days ago, the Giants were teetering on the brink of elimination in...
There may be aspects of this movie that can connect modern spiritual seekers to the Saviour. Caution; spoiler ahead! As a lifelong fan of comic book superheroes, I couldn't wait for the latest installment of the long-dormant Superman movie franchise, Superman Returns,...
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s just Ben Affleck in a lumpy blue Superman costume from studio wardrobe. O.K., the image is silly and appetite-curbing, even in color, but in Hollywoodland, a fascinating, intelligent and probing new film noir about the unsolved Tinseltown...
Passing through southern Illinois on their way to Nashville, Diana Brown and her son Colin saw the signs pointing the way to this town's Superman Square and its colorful bronze statue of the Man of Steel. Thanks to...
In recent years Superman has been changing…. When we discarded our old legacy of rugged individualism and self-sufficiency, we also abandoned the view that a heroic super-powerful individual might solve all our problems with some magnificent gesture. But what is important about Superman is not that he is changing…. It is what Superman represents, as a symbol, before he started changing that I am most interested in; and it is his symbolic significance that is most important, I feel, for our pur...
[Superman] has hardly more than his name in common with [Friedrich] Nietzsche's blasphemous and iconoclastic phantasm; in fact one suspects that he originally owed his "super" to the "super-duper," the "ne plus ultra and then some" of advertising usage. This Superman is a Li'l Abner without Mammy Yokum and without popular background, a hillbilly without the fertile background of folklore or remnants of creed. He is a Goliath rather than a David, but a ...
[The] Man of Steel, with his super-hearing, super-sight and super-vitality, has become all things to all boys. He has shaken the pedestal of many a classic boyhood idol: Tarzan, whom he can outleap and outfight; Nick Carter, whom he can out-sleuth; Galahad, whose purity is as tarnished brass compared to his. More than this Superman accomplishes with casual ease feats that are common to every boy's daydreams…. And to top it all, his motivating traits are "super-courage, super-goodness an...
