There’s no superhero as iconic as Superman – the blue-eyed boy scout, the alien immigrant born on Krypton and raised in good ol’ Kansas by a loving couple, raised to be Earth’s protector in the city of Metropolis. He’s one of the great modern American myths, a hero who’s (almost) always portrayed as a bastion of truth and justice – even in his alter-ego day job as Daily Planet journalist Clark Kent.
And while Superman has endured for over 80 years on the page – first appearing in Action Comics #1 in June 1938 – he’s also been a screen mainstay in TV and movies, from ‘40s screen serials to Richard Donner’s 1978 blockbuster which promised: ‘You’ll believe a man can fly.’ Even now, there’s Henry Cavill donning the cape in the DCEU, Tyler Hoechlin portraying the latest small-screen iteration in Arrowverse series