When is supermans birthday

Today is February 29, which makes it the day Superman's birthday is recognized. For years, both Superman's age and birthdate have been variable in the comics, but the most consistently-used birthday for Superman is February The in-real-life joke is that since Superman never seems to age, it makes sense that he has a birthday that only comes around once every four years.

Superman was now the first superhero who flew under his own power. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were devout Jews as well as big fans of science fiction and mythology. Like Moses, Kal - El is a child in danger sent in a basket spaceship down a river through space to a new home, where he's adopted and raised by the natives Jonathan and Martha Kent.

Clark's powers were partly inspired by the Greek demi - god Hercules, who was known for his mighty strength and incredible feats. Superman even wore lace - up boots that recalled sandals in his first appearances. Many people have mistakenly made fun of Superman's uniform over the years, saying that he's wearing his 'underwear' on the outside.

Others say that Superman's suit is inspired by the costumes of circus strongmen of the early part of the 20th century, which featured trunks. Both parties are wrong, as trunks are quite different from underwear and Shuster's design wasn't at all like what circus strongmen wore.

Most strongmen wore a sleeveless shirt with pants and trunks. Superman wore a full body suit of tights with trunks and a cape. Before Shuster's design, there were no other characters in literature or movies that looked like Superman, whose uniform became the pattern for all superheroes who followed in the first few decades after Superman was introduced.

Before Siegel and Shuster introduced Superman to the world, there were no characters quite like him. There were science fiction and pulp novel characters who had great strength, speed, and other abilities, but they didn't wear a unique suit with a cape.

Perhaps coincidentally, the June 18th date mentioned above happens to be the birthday of Bud Collyer, the voice actor who portrayed Superman on the radio show and the excellent Max Fleischer cartoons.

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Call a friend or a loved one. One such piece is this article by Mark Seifert on Bleeding Cool. In it he discusses how when previously dating other books, like Fantastic Four 1 and Incredible Hulk 1, they were able to look at penciled or stamped arrival dates that had been written on the covers of the comics.

Fortunately, we have something even better in this case: sworn court testimony regarding the release date of Action Comics 1. The article then quotes information from this post published by the Comics Detectives concerning Detective Comics, Inc. Bruns Fox Publications and which includes scanned transcripts of the hearing. We put that out April 18 and we left it on sale for about 6 weeks.

That seems pretty cut and dried, right? However, it does not reflect the date the book was actually on sale. The [Bleeding Cool article] references testimony from a copyright dispute.

When copyright disputes arise the interested parties consult the copyright records and claim that April 18th was the sale date. At best that date is highly suspicious, at worst it is pure hogwash.

The day Action Comics 1 was actually actually released. See that piece on on Bleeding Cool by Mark Seifert did include one really interesting bit of info, which came right after the stuff about the copyright testimony:. A penciled date of April 26! According to Voiles, maybe and maybe not:. Local dates did vary, but was the arrival date put on the book on the day the book went on sale? Hard to know.

When I asked him about it, this is whay he had to say:. My own research has shown that Action was on sale in the early part of each month, usually the first Tuesday. Therefore May 3rd is most likely the sale date for the issue. Is this any more solid than the other proposed dates? Well, Voiles is extremely dedicated to the topic and someone who collects a large number of data points to inform these dates.

Guesses they may be but very well educated guesses! You can read more about his methodology on his blog here. OK, well here we go! The list goes on. One thing I suspect very few people who make this assertion have done though? Read the actual comic in question. The last one is me just being a stickler because it also makes a good segue to a point I need to make: as this comic was from the Superman depicted is clearly the one later retconned as being from Earth-Two.

So why is his name important? The only reason this matters here is this is, I believe, the only mention of his birthday that involves the original, and later regulated to Earth-Two, version of Superman. How do we get October from this?

Well, it seems to be because of those pesky cover dates again. Action Comics has a cover date of October , but it actually went on sale August There is absolutely nothing to tie the birthday mentioned to the cover date of the comic other than people just assuming that that was what was meant.

Well, maybe the Superman of Earth-Two, Kal-L, who if you know your DC lore actually survives the destruction of his home dimension in Crisis on Infinite Earths in — actually had his birthday in October. Hoping for something more concrete, and less silly, than the previous misinformation about October? The birth date given in this comic was June Clark Kent has a different birthday from Superman. Or this kind of crap from one of those crappy Newsarama Top Ten lists they love so much:.

According to Action Comics in , the Last Son of Krypton actually recognized two birthdays: as Superman, he celebrated the day he landed on Earth June 10th ; as Clark, he celebrated the day he was adopted by the Kent family later said to be June 18th.

Action Comics is another ridiculous tale that mostly serves to show off the new addition to the Superman mythos: his Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic. In the story he discovers that someone has broken in and is messing with him — leaving him graffiti and notes saying he knows how to get in and that he knows that Superman is Clark Kent. Superman spends the entire issue in a montage of saving people, worrying about this new enemy and showing off how he relaxes in the Fortress of Solitude, such as painting, conducting science experiments and making wax sculptures of all his friends.

Superman worked it out and convinced Batman this had backfired and he was going to die of Kryptonite poisoning because of the ruse.