Before they introduced the classic Kryptonian hero we all known and love in 1938, comic book writer/artist duo Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster published the short story “Reign of the Superman” in 1933. The story followed a bald homeless vagrant named Bill Dunn who is granted psychic powers from a scientist and quickly grows mad with power and plans world domination. This version of the character was directly inspired by Nietzche’s concept of the “Ubermensch.”
Later, Siegel and Schuster decided to rewrite the Superman character into a hero after reading a detective comic book and the rest is history
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Before they introduced the classic Kryptonian hero we all known and love in 1938, comic book writer/artist duo Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster published the short story “Reign of the Superman” in 1933. The story followed a bald homeless vagrant named Bill Dunn who is granted psychic powers from a scientist and quickly grows mad with power and plans world domination. This version of the character was directly inspired by Nietzche’s concept of the “Ubermensch.”
Later, Siegel and Schuster decided to rewrite the Superman character into a hero after reading a detective comic book and the rest is history