The ORIGINS of SUPERMAN

[Great Rao]

I just started a page compiling a few of the ORIGINS of SUPERMAN!



There will be more added eventually.

[Super Monkey]

cool project!

I would like to read all the pre-crisis ones to see how it changed over the years, how many were there in all btw?

[Lee Semmens]

I can think of at least one other Superman origin story off the top of my head - The Story of Superman's Life! from Superman #146 (July 1961) which was reprinted in the Superman in the Sixties TPB.

The 1948 origin was also reprinted in the very recent Superman in the Forties TPB.

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[TELLE]

A 287-page Superman origin?  Hard to imagine, but it exists.

[Super Monkey]

A 287-page Superman origin?  Hard to imagine, but it exists.

Boy, do I hate decompressed storytelling.

I am sure glad Grant Morrison did the whole thing in one page.

[TELLE]

I like it --some of it.  I just hate paying for it in tiny, 15-page, $4 sections.  Reading it all together is better.  Haven't read Birthright, though.

[Anonymous]

birthright stinks.

althought i do like The way A S S get's the origin in one page.

[Great Rao]

cool project!

Thanks!

I would like to read all the pre-crisis ones to see how it changed over the years, how many were there in all btw?

I don't know the answer to that, but I've added the two that Lee pointed out into the pipeline.

There is a new "Origin of Superman" coming out in Superman Secret Files next week - I'm curious to see whether it will be Birthright-ish, All-Star Superman-ish, or whether Superman will  have an as-yet unseen, all-new, pending-post-Infinite-Crisis origin.