History of Superman
Many, many years ago, far away from our galaxy there was a planet called Krypton. Krypton, originally a desolate planet, was settled by the people now known as the Kryptonians. They built an advanced an elaborate civilization, but as their society developed, they grew cold emotionally.
When an impassioned scientist known as Jor-El brought news to the high council that the planet Krypton was unstable, they responded with disbelief. Firm in his belief, Jor-El built a small rocket for his wife Lara and their newborn son Kal-El to travel to the nearest developed planet. This planet was Earth. Lara refuses, and the pair send their only son into outer space to find a new home, never to know his parents or the planet that was Krypton.
Soon the planet explodes. Eventually, young Kal-El’s rocket lands in a small town in Kansas known as Smallville. It is discovered by a farmer and his wife, Johnathan and Martha Kent. The pair adopt the young boy, naming him Clark.
At first, the young Clark Kent has no special powers, but as he enters adolescence he begins to develop abilities such as super-strength, telescopic and microscopic vision, super-hearing, and the ability to run fast. He eventually develops a yearning to learn his origins, not knowing any gifted youths such as him.
One day, a traveler with similar powers such as him known as Mon-El crosses his paths, and they become friends, almost brothers, before they discover the lead in the Earth’s crust is lethal to Mon-El. Mon-El is sent away to another dimension to stop the lead poisoning, leaving Clark with the knowledge that while Mon-El was not the same, that there were others in the universe like him.
As Clark Kent grows older, he begins to secretly do good deeds around Smallville and the world, and he meets a trio of young heroes from the future known as the Legion of Super-heroes. These three, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl idolize the man young Clark will become, and bring him into the future and making him a member of their team. It is there in the far flung 30th century that Clark Kent finds friends with powers that he can relate to and a sense of what he wants to do with his life.
During his early twenties following high school, Clark Kent becomes a journalist, traveling around the world writing about current events, and helping secretly when he can. It is during this period that his greatest power develops; the power of flight.
Eventually Clark Kent moves to the city of Metropolis and joins the staff of metropolitan newspaper The Daily Planet, and falls in love with its resident award-winning and intrepid reporter Lois Lane. Using the information he learns as a journalist, he fights crime under the guise of Superman, one of the world’s first costumed superheroes since the 1940s. It is with this guise, that he wins the heart of Lois Lane. Also at this time, he comes toe-to-toe with his greatest adversary, and an old childhood friend gone bad, billionaire businessman Lex Luthor.
Time goes on, his superhero exploits grow, and he would soon meet his first real ally and future best friend, the mysterious urban vigilante known only as Batman. It is through this relationship that the traditionally solitary hero joins a recently formed group by the name of the Justice League and stays with it for the majority of its incarnations.
However, tragedy would strike, and Superman would meet an unstoppable foe. A mysterious Kryptonian monster known only as Doomsday. Superman would fight to the death with Doomsday and the city of Metropolis would mourn until the day of his resurrection by the means of his unique Kryptonian physiology.
Superman would overcome his greatest trial, and Clark Kent would have won the love of the woman he desired. Long after his death and rebirth, and long after villain and criminal after villain and criminal, he would gain a small circle of friends and family: a cousin from Krypton long since stranded on Earth, as well as an adopted younger brother in that of Connor Kent, a half-Kryptonian wanting to find his way as a hero, and eventually, the son of an old foe, General Zod, known as Chris Kent.
Superman would never stop saving the day, and even now, Clark Kent has not, for long, strayed from his role as one of Metropolis’s most prominent figures.
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