- Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1 created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
- Superman goes by the alter ego Clark Kent and was born on another planet called Krypton under the name Kal-El, which is what gives him his super abilities.
- Superman’s primary love interest is Lois Lane, a co-worker of his at the Daily Planet.
- Some of Superman’s most notable enemies are Bizarro; Brainiac; Darkseid; Doomsday; General Zod; and of course Lex Luthor.
- Superman’s abilities include Superhuman strength, speed, senses, endurance, and logevity; flight; heat vision; freezing breath; extrasensory and visual powers including X-ray.
- IGN, Imagine Games Network, labeled Superman as the greatest comic book hero and pointed him out as the blueprint for the superheroes we know and love today.
- In 1992 Superman died at the hands of Doomsday in which both landed fatal blows simultaneously.
- Weeks later Kal-El was revived and took back up the mantle of Superman.
- Superman was one of the founding members of the Justice League of America, a team of superheroes from across the DC Comics universe.
- Superman has been played in person by multiple actors including George Reeves (Andventures of Superman); Christopher Reeves (Superman: The Movie I-IV); Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman); Tom Welling (Smallville); Brandon Routh (Superman Returns); and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel)