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Superman

The first comic-strip superhero, created 1938 in the USA by writer Jerome Siegel and artist Joseph Shuster, later featured in films, television, and other media. In the German philosopher Nietzsche's work, his ideal future human being was the Übermensch, or Superman.

Born on the fictitious planet Krypton (which has more gravitational pull than Earth), Superman has extraordinary powers on Earth, including the ability to fly; he is vulnerable only to kryptonite, rock remnants of his exploded home planet. Between feats of crime-fighting or rescuing accident victims, he leads an ordinary life as meek, mild-mannered newspaper reporter Clark Kent.



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Beside his love for comics -- born Nic Coppola, the actor took his stage name from the Marvel title "Luke Cage, Hero for Hire," and in 2005 named his infant son Kal-el, which is Superman's Kryptonian moniker -- Cage is a huge motorcycle enthusiast.
CAGE'D HEAT THIS GHOST RIDER BRINGS A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIRE TO THE ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
As their home planet, Krypton, is destroyed, a Jor-El and his wife Lard set little Kal-El adrift, not on the river Nile, but into outer space, in the hopes that a good family on Earth will raise their son as one of their own, even though he is truly a king.
The Gospel according to Superman by Clark, Cale / Catholic Insight
is a Clark Kent, with a Kal-El inside him screaming to get out.
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman by McConnell, Frank / Commonweal
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