The Big Book of Superman, 22 (DC Super Heroes)

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The film was produced by Barney Sarecky with the original screenplay by Richard Fielding (a pseudonym for Robert Maxwell and Whitney Ellsworth). the issue also featured a visionary tale written and drawn by Jim Steranko, and an introduction by famous science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Their last hope is to send Kal-El away in a prototype rocket, guided by Brainiac artificial intelligence to find planets with younger suns and weaker gravity. By 1942 the former assistant to Joe Shuster was working on his own for DC, turning out pencilled and inked pages for Action Comics and Superman.

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This was seen by some as racebending a white character while "erasing" existing Black characters, a conversation that Jordan did not want to engage in. A fourth series was released in June 2016 and ended in April 2018, while the fifth series was launched in July 2018 and ended in June 2021. Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons – direct-to-video film in which Superman is voiced by Travis Willingham. On first time outings, such as the premiere episode of a television series or a first feature film, the origin story is generally depicted. The Donner Cut received positive response from critics [20] as well as from the stars of the original film; according to the studio, the cut made Donner "the first director in history to be able to complete a film he left during production with nearly all his footage in the can".Siegel signed an affidavit that claimed Superman was not influenced by Gladiator, though he had reviewed the novel for his fanzine Science Fiction in 1932.

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He accepted, abandoning two films already in pre-production, X-Men: The Last Stand (which would come to be directed by Brett Ratner) and a remake of Logan's Run.

Clark later learns that he is from Krypton after finding the spacecraft in the custody of the secret government agency Bureau 39. The DC Extended Universe version of Superman also appears in The Flash, where he can be seen attempting to contain the spread of an active volcano in a news report segment which was played on a television inside a cafe during the film's opening sequence. On this Earth, Kal-El is teleported to Earth moments before the planet Krypton is destroyed when its sun went supernova.

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One last story, which also marked the end of Schwartz's tenure as editor of the series, [16] was published to give a send-off to the former status quo: Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Later, he was shown to have begun his heroic career as Superboy, [2] changing his name to Superman after he grew up.

The story was later removed from continuity ("retconned") and replaced with the Superman: Birthright limited series in 2003 and 2004, written by Mark Waid and drawn by Leinil Francis Yu, as Superman's official origin.

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DC Comics responded to a petition about to be dropped with a statement that it supported freedom of expression and that the personal views of individuals associated with the company were not the views of the company. On Earth, Eben and Martha Kent find Kal-El in the spacecraft and pull him from it before it explodes. Danner's great strength comes from a serum injected into him by his father while still a fetus which gave him the proportional strength of an insect. Martha gives Clark a uniform made from the blankets they found him in and he decides to take on the secret identity Superman. Flashbacks seen in that story indicate that the origin as depicted in the New 52 and in Superman: Secret Origin have been hybridized, with most of the characters' pre- Flashpoint histories overwriting early New 52 stories.Where there had been two Superman, their realities have now been fused into one timeline with just one of them. Cavill made his final appearance as the character in a cameo role, filmed for the mid-credits scene of Black Adam (2022).