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In
June, 1938, the first issue of Action Comics, with Superman
on the cover, appeared on the newsstands. The first Superman
story was 13 pages long. The character was created by
writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. They had come
up with the idea 1933 and were unsuccessful in their attempts
to publish Superman to Pulp magazine publishers. This
first issue included the first appearance of Lois Lane,
and the paper they worked for was The Daily Star.
Superman's
worst enemy, Lex Luthor had red hair when he first appeared
in Action Comics # 23. It was in Superman # 61 that Superman
found out about Kryptonite, and found that he was really
from Krypton. In 1986, to clean up story continuity from
the past 48 years, DC and John Byrne produced, a six issue
mini series, to redefine Superman for his second 50 years.
In 1992, Superman was "killed off" by Doomsday, and you
almost thought he wouldn't be back. He did return, and
several battles later, figured out a way to defeat Doomsday,
at least, so far.
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