NAME: Kryptonian: Kal-El, Earth: Clark Kent

ALIAS: Superman

OCCUPATION: In Costume as Superman: Hero (Best of the Best), In Guise of Mild Mannered Reporter: Self-explanatory.

BASE OF OPERATIONS: Metropolis, NY.

MARITAL STATUS: Recently married to fellow reporter, Lois Lane.

HEIGHT: 6'3"

WEIGHT: 225 lbs.

EYES: Blue

HAIR: Black

FIRST APPEARANCE: Action Comics #1, June, 1938; Current version, before powers change: Above the skies of Metropolis, underneath experimental space-plane he prevented from crashing. (Man of Steel, miniseries, #1[1986])

POWERS:

flight; invulneribilty; heat-vision; x-ray, microscopic, telescopic visions; super-human strength; super-speed; super-hearing; resistance to hat hair.

SOURCE OF POWERS: Kryptonian pysiology enables him to store the energy from the (yellow) sun, in which the radiation augments the powers.

Superman came to earth as a baby, still in a birthing matrix. (Meaning he actually wasn't "born" yet.) His parents sent him to earth as the only survivor of their planet, Krypton, which exploded. (Due to disturbances within the planet's core.) Upon crashing to the earth, in Smallville, Kansas, his birthing matrix opened and he was found by Martha and Jonathan Kent, a couple who was unable to have children of their own, naturally. They raised him as if he were their real son. They didn't know he was from another world, they thought he was part of a space experiment. As he grew, he started to develop strange abilities (due to exposure to the earth's yellow sun, and his Kryptonian body). At 18, he found out he could fly, and also realized that he had been given his powers for a reason, and that he should help people. (Instilled in him because of his parents' teachings and guidance.) He left Smallville after high school and traveled abroad. He used his powers in secret for many years, until one day he had to save a space-plane that was crashing right after take-off. (In front of a crowd of spectators who were watching the launch, I might add.) On board was investigative reporter, Lois Lane. She was mesmerized by him from this moment on. After he landed the plane, he was mobbed by people who wanted him to perform miracles for them. This experience really changed his life, so he decided that he needed some way to be able to live a normal life and use his powers to help others. So he, with the help of his mother and father, came up with the costume, Lois Lane supplied the name: Superman. Lois got the interview of the century, but so did budding reporter, Clark Kent. Clark got to the Daily Planet with the interview before Lois, and got hired. Lois, who was already working for the planet, was furious. Especially when editor Perry White made them partners. Because of being "out-scooped", Lois had a lot of hostility towards Clark. But eventually love took ahold, and the rest is (recent) history.

Clark and Lois got engaged, and he revealed to Lois that he was also Superman.

He was killed while fighting a monster known as Doomsday. But due to the right circumstances he was able to cheat death and come back. There were four imposter Supermen: The Man of Steel, the Cyborg, Superboy (a clone), and the Last Son of Krypton (known as the Eradicator), that filled in while he was "dead".

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