Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Superman! Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, Superman has captivated our imaginations ever since he graced the cover of Action Comics #1 back in June of 1938. Here are two interesting tales about the Man of Steel.
Knee problems. Superman couldn’t fly, but he could leap over tall buildings in a single bound! Or at least that’s what Superman co-creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel had in mind when they came up with the beloved superhero in 1938. It wasn’t until 1940 that he “developed” the ability to fly when animators for a new Superman cartoon show thought it would be too complicated to continuously draw him with his knees bent, thus deciding he should fly instead.
Superman helped bring down the KKK. Stetson Kennedy was an activist who had gathered information on the KKK by infiltrating the organization in the 1940s, but he found local authorities unable or unwilling to use the information to crack down on them. Kennedy turned to the creators of the hugely popular Adventures of Superman radio series, who incorporated the information into a 16-episode series entitled Clan of the Fiery Cross. The show helped expose the organisation and rob it of much of the secrecy it had enjoyed until that time.
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