Superman

The American cultural icon

 • Invention
The first Superman character
created by Jerry Siegel and Joe
Shuster was not a hero, but rather
a bald telepathic villain named
"The Superman", bent on
dominating the entire world. It
appeared in the short story "The
Reign of the Super-Man" from
Science Fiction #3. The story did
not sell, forcing the two to
reposition their character on the
right side of the law.
Later, Siegel came upon the more familiar
version of the character. Then they began a six-
year quest to find a publisher. Titling it The
Superman, Siegel and Shuster offered it to
Consolidated Book Publishing . Although they
received an encouraging letter, Consolidated
never again published comic books. Finally, in
1938, the editor Vin Sullivan of the National
Allied Publications (the primary precursor of DC
Comics ) chose it as the cover feature for
National's Action Comics #1 and published their
works.
Sources: History of Superman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel
• The original story
The original story of Superman relates that he was born
Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before being rocketed to
Earth as an infant by his scientist father Jor-El, moments
before Krypton's destruction. Discovered and adopted by a
Kansas farmer and his wife, the child is raised as Clark
Kent and imbued with a strong moral compass. Very early
he started to display superhuman abilities, which upon
reaching maturity he resolved to use for the benefit of
humanity. Superman lives among humans as a "mild-
mannered reporter" for the Metropolis newspaper Daily
Planet (Daily Star in the earliest stories). There he works
alongside reporter Lois Lane, with whom he is romantically
linked.
Sources : Superman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 • The writer & artist
• Jerry Siegel ‧Joe Shuster
(1914~1996) (1914~1992)
 • Actor
Kirk Alyn George Reeves Christopher Reeve

Gerard Christopher Dean Cain Tom Welling Brandon Routh

 •Superpower
• Superhuman strength : more powerful than a locomotive
• Speed : faster than a speeding bullet
• Invulnerability
• Stamina &Durability
• Senses
• Intelligence
• Regeneration
• Longevity
• super-hearing
• super breath : which enables him to blow out air at freezing
temperatures, as well as exert the propulsive force of high-speed
winds.
• vision powers : x-ray, heat-emitting, telescopic, infra-red,
and microscopic vision
• flight
 • Characters
Sources : Superman Homepage - News

• Superman/Clark Kent (Brandon Routh )

• Lois Lane -- superman’s love ‧Lex Luthor -- superman’s enemy
(Kate Bosworth ) (Kevin Spacey)
• Richard White (Love interest for Lois Lane)
(James Marsden )

• Jimmy Olsen (Sam Huntington )

is a young photojournalist
working for the Daily Planet.
He is close friends with Lois Lane,
Superman and Perry White.
• Martha Kent (Eva Marie Saint ) – superman’s adoptive mother

‧Stanford (Kal Penn) -one of Lex Luthor's

henchmen

• young Clark Kent (Stephen Bender )

• Ben Hubbard (James Karen ) - is a neighboring farmer of the Kents'

‧Kitty Koslowski -- a henchwoman

working for Luthor

(Parker Posey )

‧Perry White - Clark Kent's boss at the Daily Planet

(Frank Langella )
 Superman Returns!
●YouTube - Superman returns part 4
★ Vocabulary

• Villain : the main bad character in a film, play, or story.

• Invulnerability : that is invulnerable cannot be harmed or damaged .
• Stamina : physical or mental strength that lets you
continue doing something for a long time without
getting tired
• Longevity : the amount of time that someone or
something lives.
• Telescopic : making distant things look bigger, like a
telescope does