Comic book hero, Created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel.

In this comic books Superman is the sole survivor of the planet Krypton. His father, Jor-El, discovered that a nuclear chain reaction was building inside Krypton that would soon shatter the entire world. Jor-El therefore had his unborn son Kal-El removed from the Kryptonian Gestation Chambers and affixed the life matrix containing Kal-El to an experimental vessel for travel through hyperspace. Jor-El launched the starcraft toward Earth just before Krypton exploded.

Superman was, in effect, born on Earth when the starcraft landed there. Jonathan and Martha Kent found the infant inside the vessel and brought him to their farm in Smallville, Kansas. Since he appeared entirely human, the Kents assumed that the baby was a victim of a cruel experiment. At this time the baby had no super powers. The Kents named the infant Clark and raised him as their own son. Later Superman developed super powers and became a hero, saving people from disasters etcetera.cynics say that comic characters like Superman, batman and Spiderman are in the United States what persons like Homer and Aristotle are in europa. as americans do not have such a rich history as Europeans, americans fill this culture-gap with comic books.