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1938 1940 IS BORN! #1 - The most shocking thing about DEBUTS IS BORN! Time this 10-cent magazine is how perfunctory Superman's ACTION COMICS #23 - It took two years origin story is. We learn that he's from another world, of battling street thugs, racketeers, and can lift steel beams, outrun trains, etc. — but after one corrupt politicians for the Man of Steel to page of that, he's busting down the governor's bedroom find his lifelong nemesis: Lex Luthor. Flies door to save a wrongly accused woman on death row. By Anthony Breznican, Geo Boucher, Keith Staskiewicz, Je Jensen Jun 14, 2013

1941 1943 HE FLIES FOR THE FIRST TIME IS BORN! WATCH OUT...IT'S ! THE FLEISCHER BROTHERS' ANIMATED SUPERMAN SHORTS - In the RADIO'S THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN - As storytellers made early days, Superman just jumped great distances, which looked fine in a Superman more powerful, they also had to find new weaknesses. The static comic-book panel. ''They felt that it just looked silly, this guy jumping glowing green rock that paralyzes the Man of Steel first materialized around,'' says Mark Fleischer, grandson of Max and current chairman and as a plot in the 1940--51 radio serial. It took six years for kryptonite to CEO of Fleischer Studios. From that point on, Superman could soar through turn up in the comic books, but it's now a staple of his mythology. the air under his own power. Just like a bird. Or a plane.

1950s 1961 HE TAKES TV IN A SINGLE BOUND FIRST THREATENS EARTH! TV'S ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN - George Reeves ADVENTURE COMICS #283 -General Zod debuted in three panels of a brought the hero into America's homes when he appeared story as a would-be tyrant on Superman's home planet who's in 104 episodes of this hit TV series. bent on enslaving fellow Kryptonians. Exiled to the , an eerie dimension that Krypton used as a ghostly gulag, he soon escaped to a vivid new locale: Hollywood, where he became a go-to villain on film.

1966 1978 SUPERMAN SINGS! SOARS INTO THEATERS IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE... IT'S SUPERMAN - SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE - Director Richard Donner's Superman was marketed as a Forty-five years before Spider-Man: Turn Off the miracle: ''You'll believe a man can fly.'' While the then-revolutionary special effects Dark, a musical about a high-flying in propelled the film to an otherworldly $134 million at the box office, the film's most tights hit Broadway. startling spectacle may have been the assemblage of talent.

1992 SUPERMAN MEETS HIS FATE? THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN - Dead superheroes inevitably don't stay dead, but the comic-book demise of Superman was an enormous event nonetheless. In a multi-issue arc, Supes fights the genetically invincible villain Doomsday, eventually succumbing to his injuries in the best-selling Superman #75. The popularity of the story led Warner Bros. to spend years developing a film adaptation, with Tim Burton directing and Nicolas Cage attached to play the Man of Steel. But the project went through multiple writers (including Kevin Smith) and never took flight.

1993 - 97 CLARK GETS ROMANTIC TV'S LOIS & CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN - Superman flew back onto the small screen with the ABC series, but this time it was . As its title suggests, the show was just as concerned with the man in glasses and his relationship with his Daily Planet co-worker () — as it was with the man in tights. The two of them even tied the knot in the fourth season, with the televised nuptials scheduled to coincide with DC's release of the comic Superman: The Wedding Album. ''For me, it was much more about Clark Kent,'' says star Dean Cain. ''We tried to make him as interesting as the guy flying around saving people.''

2001 - 11 CLARK HITS PUBERTY TV'S - Everyone knows Superman's origin story, but what was life actually like for him when he was just a Superteen? That was the premise of the WB series that spent 10 seasons examining the character's formative years as he was still grappling with his powers and his identity. Superman didn't master flying until the final episode. ''Our main interest was getting inside Clark Kent's psyche and understanding why he becomes the man he does,'' Miles Millar told EW when the. ''Taking away the suit and the glasses was really to strip him away to a more human character and get to the heart of Superman.''

2006 SUPERMAN ATTEMPTS A COMEBACK - After 1987's notoriously bad Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and its awkward nuclear-disarmament message. Warner Bros, made numerous attempts to revive the franchise on screen. Then director stepped forward, pitching a continuation of the Donner universe, a concept furthered by star 's physical similarity to Christopher Reeve. (Kevin Spacey portrayed Lex Luthor, while Kate Bosworth played Lois Lane.)

2013 SUPERMAN GETS A REBOOT MAN OF STEEL - Superman has fallen. He is sick, he is pained, and at this very moment on the set of a production code-named ''Autumn Frost,'' he is throwing up blood. British actor Henry Cavill writhes on a platform surrounded by curtains as green as kryptonite. Man of Steel's most contemporary touch might be Snyder's own storytelling voice. This movie definitely has personality, and that was important to me,'' says the director.