SupermanThe 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

• Superman/Clark Kent (Brandon Routh )

Sources : Superman Homepage - News

• 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!

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★ 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