Appearing regularly in stories published by DC Comics, he debuted in Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ) and serves as the civilian and secret identity of the superhero Superman.

Superman's secret identity as Clark Kent is one of the DC Universe's greatest secrets.

Lex Luthor, other supervillains, and various civilians have learned the secret identity several times, though their knowledge is usually been removed through various means ( the boxer Muhammad Ali is one of the very few to deduce the identity and retain the knowledge ).

More recent stories ( post-Crisis ) often feature the general public assuming that Superman has no secret identity due to the fact that he, unlike most heroes, doesn't wear a mask.

In the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes, his secret identity is historical fact, with exhibits at a Superman Museum depicting the hero and his friends and family's adventures.

* Another reason given in the 1987 story " The Secret Revealed " was the public simply does not know that Superman has a secret identity, considering he does not wear a mask, which implies to most that he has nothing to hide.

In that role he adopted a higher voice and a more introverted personality – clearly establishing that Kent is the secret identity and Superman is the true person.

Although Kent is described in the show introduction as " mild-mannered ", he can be very assertive, often giving orders to people and taking authoritative command of situations, though, as in the Pre-Crisis Superman stories at that time, Clark is still considered the secret identity.

These films leave the impression that Clark Kent is really a secret identity that is used to enable Superman to serve humanity better, rather than just a role to help him assimilate into the human community.

In season nine, Clark unintentionally begins to formalize his dual identity to protect his secret and also privately introduces the well-known glasses to Lois Lane.

During the discussion it becomes clear how different this process is from regular legal proceedings – guilt is assumed, the bureaucracy running it is vast with many levels, and everything is secret, from the charge, to the rules of the court, to the authority behind the courts – even the identity of the judges at the higher levels.

In the UK, Banksy is the most recognizable icon for this cultural artistic movement and keeps his identity a secret to avoid arrest.

Jesus silences the demoniacs he heals, tries unsuccessfully to keep his messianic identity secret, and conceals his message with parables.

To keep these programmers from being hired away by rival Atari, their identity and work location was kept a closely guarded secret.

Although he tricks Lois ' clone into divulging Superman's secret identity, he still fails in destroying Superman, and is killed in the destruction of his lab in his underground subway hideout.

A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource ( example: an access code is a type of password ).

In lucha libre, many characters wear masks, adopting a secret identity akin to a superhero, a near-sacred tradition.

While Worf decided to accept this dishonor, it was decided to keep Kurn's true identity secret in order to protect his honor ( TNG: " Sins of the Father ").

Among those familiar with his poetry, his identity became an open secret, but Scott persisted maintaining the façade, perhaps because he thought his old-fashioned father would disapprove of his engaging in such a trivial pursuit as novel writing.

This gap, this non-identity in identity, was the secret to a critique of both material life and conceptual reflection.

First, instead of playing a completely fictional character, players were encouraged to start the character-creation process with a version of themselves ( presumably as the superhero's " secret identity.

** Trisha Meili is attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park ; as her identity remains secret for years, she becomes known as the " Central Park Jogger.

Lion was actually Firestar's puppy, as Angelica introduced Peter to the dog before she and Bobby knew Peter's secret identity or vice versa ( as former teammates in the X-Men, Iceman and Firestar knew each other's secret identities before meeting Peter / Spider-Man ).

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

He said that his information was so secret that he would not be able to confide in me the origin of his pipeline tip.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.

Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

The burden of his secret was pressing down on him, as it was on Lieutenant Beckstrom and his six enlisted men.

After all, Alger Hiss, subsequently convicted of perjury in denying that he gave secret State Department documents to Soviet agents, was at Yalta.

His smile was quick, and his eyes held some promised secret that made my knees go limp.

Adam, beset by changing defense conditions and the open secret that he was part of the new corporation, couldn't deliver from his end.

In a camp, instead of shipboard, hiding the secret was easier.

But the secret itself was just as hard.