Superman is the DC Comics hero created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, first appearing in Action Comics #1 in 1938. Born Kal-El on Krypton, he was sent to Earth as an infant and raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent in Smallville, Kansas. He works as Clark Kent, a reporter at the Daily Planet in Metropolis, while quietly protecting the world.

He is known for his super strength, flight and strict moral code, and for the idea that what you do matters more than where you were born. His line that it was Krypton that made him Superman, but Earth that makes him human, captures what drives him: choosing the best option he can each