Arguably the most iconic of all superheroes, Superman was born into a powerful family on the planet Krypton and given the name Kal-El.
With his home planet facing apocalypse, his father and mother put him in an escape pod and sent him to Earth, where he would become our planet’s most loyal protector.
The character was created by writer Jerry Siegal and artist Joe Shuster, making his debut in the first issue of Action Comics published in April 1938, a magazine originally intended as an anthology featuring a variety of different stories and genres.
At that time Jack Liebowitz was the publisher of National Allied Publications, which would later become DC Comics. Up till that point, the Superman comic strip had been rejected by other publishers several times.
The work of the two young Jewish creators impressed Liebowitz enough that he gave them 13 pages in the comic for their then unique ‘super hero’ concept.
Readers seemed to agree with the publisher. Action Comics #1 was a huge success, mostly due to the introduction of Superman.
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