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Superman robots was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 22 March 2025 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Superman on 17 May 2025. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.
I understand that most Superman stories are from Actions Comics, but the thing is that I don't even know why "DC Comics" was removed from the beginning of the article if he is originally from that company. 186.94.143.209 (talk) 06:06, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alias? Codename? Alter ego is the term used in comics
Every superhero has a secret identity, or as the comics have referred to them at least since about 1960 (when I began selling coke bottles to finance my habit), alter ego. Just my $0.02. 72.78.180.82 (talk) 16:09, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with the claim in the article's lead that Superman popularized the superhero genre. By 1938 the genre was ALREADY popular (and obviously Action #1 can't take credit for that). I'd say Superman had a great effect on the already popular genre and extending it into what is clearly superhuman abilities. (Note that precursors, such as The Shadow, had supernatural abilities (i.e. magical invisibility/hypnotic effect).) What Superman (and its competitors) did was push the "man of action" genre into the superhuman. (I'm not sure if this was from its inception or something that evolved over its initial years. Clearly, being an alien makes Superman a subgenre of sci-fi.) So: what was Action's market share at the end of 1938? 1940? etc. Citations please.98.22.50.44 (talk) 08:20, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"what was Action's market share at the end of 1938? 1940? etc." I doubt that there are data for this, since the market was in its infancy. See History of American comics. "The first American-style true comic book, published independently of a newspaper (Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics), appeared in 1933.[1] But most of the early comic books were newspaper-strip reprints, with original material and characters gradually emerging over the next few years. Before Superman, More Fun Comics (1935-1947) was the first American comic book series to feature solely original material rather than reprints. But its characters did not exactly have the star power of later anthology characters. The best remembered among them is probably the occult detectiveDoctor Occult (introduced in 1935), but the rest of the cast included Barry O'Neill and his archenemy Fang Gow, Sandra of the Secret Service (DC's first female action hero), the French swashbuckler Henri Duval, and several more obscure and short-lived characters. Superman is often credited with teaching publishers that the comic book market could be lucrative, and that they should try to either create or license the rights to popular characters if they wanted to attract an audience. Dimadick (talk) 09:25, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Done 