DC Comics Takes The Man Of Steel Back To The Golden Age In Fleischer-Inspired Superman: The Stranger

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Can't wait to check this out. I've wanted to see this for a while: take Superman back to his roots. The S is just an S that Clark created to stand for Superman (Mark Waid retconning it into the "hope glyph that only coincidentally resembles an S" in Birthright was one of the worst retcons of all time, ditto for Marlon Brando insisting on wearing the S in the first Reeve film; Superman is Clark Kent's creation, not Krypton's). Clark created the costume, the Superman persona, and the mild mannered reporter disguise. Clark put an S inside of a shield/badge 🛡 to show he is a protector and to stand for "Superman," the name others called him as a pseudo celebrity/urban legend figure; he designed a costume inspired by wrestlers and other performer strong-men, he put it in primary colors with no mask so people don't think he is hiding from them, he is transparent and there to help. Superman is Clark's public performing vigilante persona to use his powers and the mild mannered reporter disguise is a means to that end. Being an alien is just an explanation for the powers, nothing else. Superman doesn't even know he's an alien until several years into his costumed career as Superman and when he finds out, it means nothing to him beyond the explanation for his abilities. The point of the character is he's a guy with powers who helps people, not that he is an alien or space Jesus figure. Over emphasizing Krypton has always made Superman less interesting.

And finally the secret identity will be restored. No more marriage to Lois, no kids, no Lois Lane and a bunch of other people knowing the secret, all those things should only happen in "what if?" stories or "future tales," and not ever be the permanent status quo of a Superman story. It will be great to see an actual Siegel style Superman where they get the point of the character right again if they can do that here.

The only other things that have come close over the last 30 or so years was of course John Byrne's excellent Superman origin and the novel "It's Superman!"

I suspect tho we may see a lot more stories like this over the comimg decade with the character becoming public domain and everything in the early issues of Action Comics and Superman #1 becoming available for anyone to use. This will cause people to re-examine the character and what defined him, and I think they will find that everything important about Superman can be found in that first year of Action Comics in 1938 and first year of Superman in 1939. You don't need anything else to make a great Superman story. Let Superman be the special thing in his own stories again. Yes, Krypton was there, but just as the explanation for the powers. The Kents were there too in year one for the explanation of Clark, and it is Clark that created Superman and the mild mannered reporter disguise to find things for his vigilante identity to help with. That's the character. That's what's in Action 1 and Superman 1 in those first two years of the character and what I hope to see here.

Anyway looking forward to this. Hope it will be like what I am imagining here.