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Superman is the brainchild of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster who first envisioned the character in 1932 and later had his first appearance in Action Comics #1 in June 1938. What Jerry and Joe did not know at the time was that they had created a character that would become the signature icon of DC Comics and the most universally recognized hero in human history.Superman Returns Enamel Belt Buckle

Since 1938, the character of Superman/Clark Kent has appeared in every imaginable media form including television, film, novelizations, and even a Broadway show.

Being Superman is the childhood fantasy of every little boy and girl (they of course want to be Supergirl). He is an enduring emblem of the American dream, the young immigrant who comes to the United States, embraces the culture and makes something of himself and enriches his adopted nation. He is a classical hero in the modern age who fights criminals, rescues the helpless and has a sense of morals and justice as strong and unshakeable as he is.

His homeworld was a planet called Krypton, a dying world. His parents, Jor-El and Lara hoping to save their son, placed his birthing matrix into a rocket and sent it to Earth so that he may live and could later use his abilities gained from the yellow sun to aid innocent life. Crash landing outside the town of Smallville, Kansas, the child was found and taken in by a farming couple. Jonathan and Martha Kent would become Kal-El's foster parents and raise him to the best of their ability. They named him Clark, and that name would become not only the link to his humanity but an alter ego that would help keep his loved ones from danger. As Clark grew into his teens, he found out more and more about his abilities, and as a young man he officially took on the guise of Superman thanks to a costume made by Martha from his swaddling clothes sent with him from Krypton.

By the time he was an adult he had gained the ability to fly, fire heat vision from his eyes and see through walls. From that point, he became the superhero we have all come to know and love. He became SUPERMAN!