Although the world's first superhero, Superman, began in the pages of comic books in 1938, most of us probably first encountered Clark Kent/Kal-El on the screen. And since 1941, there has been some ...

Superman was originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1938. The first issue of Superman was released in June of that year and was released in the National Allied Publication. According to ...

Making his debut in 1938's Action Comics #1, the incredible adventures of Superman captivated the world and paved the way for all other superhero comics that would follow. Coming from the planet ...

When the character of Superman was invented in 1938, it was perhaps easier to see the world in good and bad terms. Fascism was already on the rise in Germany under Adolf Hitler, and the idea of an all ...

An original copy of the first edition of the first "Superman" comic from 1939 — which had been lying undiscovered in an attic for decades — was sold at auction on Thursday for more than $9 million, ...

A first-edition copy of “Superman No. 1” sold Thursday for $9.12 million, the highest price ever paid for a comic book, according to Heritage Auctions. The 1939 issue — discovered last year in a ...

Being Superman was so cool; that’s what decades of comics-reading boys thought. Outracing a locomotive, bending steel like licorice, leaping tall buildings, flying around saving people and sneaking ...