The 2004 limited series Superman: Birthright has a young Clark Kent study the Meisner technique to move seamlessly between his Clark and Superman personas ( dropping his head, lowering his shoulders, and talking in a lighter tone as Clark Kent, while standing straight and talking in a deeper tone as Superman ).

The 2004 series Superman: Birthright also explained that Superman's eyes are an inhumanly vivid shade of blue, which Clark's glasses diffuse to make his eyes appear more human.

In Birthright, Luthor remains a wealthy corporate magnate ; in contrast to Byrne's characterization, however, LexCorp is founded upon Luthor's study of extraterrestrial life, thereby providing a link between himself and Superman.

In the retrospective section of the Superman: Birthright trade paperback, Waid explains:

Birthright was initially intended to establish a new origin for Superman and Luthor.

As shown previously in Superman: Birthright and the pre-Crisis stories, he spends part of his adolescence in Smallville, Kansas, where he meets Clark Kent, Lana Lang, and Pete Ross.

In the 2004 mini-series Superman: Birthright, a new retelling of Superman's origin and early years, Mark Waid depicted a Krypton, officially stated as being located in the Andromeda Galaxy 2. 5 million light-years away, with elements of various versions of the planet, but closer to the pre-Crisis version.

While in previous comic versions of the mythos, it was assumed the " S " simply stood for " Superman "; in Birthright, Waid presented the symbol as a Kryptonian symbol of hope ( borrowing and modifying a concept from Superman: The Movie, where the " S " represented the House of El, Superman's ancestral family ).

But after Superman: Birthright it was suggested that the planet Krypton was from an entirely different galaxy.

Superman's symbol is given a Kryptonian origin in the film ( as Smallville and Mark Waid's Superman: Birthright would years later ).

Action Comics # 850 presents the latest revision of Superman's origin, containing many subtle retcons to Superman: Birthright, the latest major revision of Superman's continuity.

In the 2004 miniseries Superman: Birthright, Jor-El, along with Krypton and Lara, was, more or less, reinstated to his Silver Age versions, though with such updated touches as Lara contributing equally to the effort of sending Kal-El, once again an infant while on Krypton, to Earth.

* Superman: Birthright

The Superman: Birthright miniseries reinstated several Silver Age elements of Superman, one of which is Kandor.

Superman was thrown out of time and saw both versions of his origin: Man of Steel and Birthright.

He is well known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics ' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics ' Captain America.

In 2003 Waid wrote the origin of the " modern " Superman with Superman: Birthright, a twelve-part limited series which was meant to be the new official origin story of the Man of Steel.

Birthright contained several characters and elements from Silver and Modern Age Superman comics and also homages to Superman: The Movie and the Smallville television series.

During the 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, Luthor allies himself with fellow Superman foe Brainiac to recruit an army of supervillains spanning the DC multiverse, intending to take advantage of the confusion caused by the Crisis.

In an effort to return Superman to his special status as the " last son of Krypton " DC had used the Crisis and the Man of Steel limited series to eliminate most of the Kryptonian supporting characters.

Anderson became widely known outside the art world in 1981 with the single " O Superman ", originally released in a limited quantity by B. George's One Ten Records.

The character made forty appearances in the Superman family of titles — Action Comics, Superman, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane, Adventure Comics, Secret Society of Super Villains, and DC Comics Presents — from 1959 to 1984, prior to a reboot of the DC Universe as a result of the limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths # 1-12 ( April 1985-March 1986 ).

The monstrous clone survives and, although mute and possessed of only limited intelligence and vague memories of Clark Kent's life, attempts to mimic Superman ; he kidnaps Lois Lane and is finally destroyed when colliding with Superman in mid-air.

The limited series All-Star Superman ( Jan. 2006-Oct. 2008 ) features Bizarro clones from an alternate universe called the " Underverse ".

Several alternate universe versions of the character exist: the Silver Age Bizarro appears in Justice as a member of the Legion of Doom ; one-shot The Superman Monster ( 1999 ), essentially a Frankenstein pastiche features a monstrous copy of Bizarro created by a Viktor Luthor ; one-shot Superman: Red Son ( 2004 ) features a " Superman 2 " created by genius Lex Luthor for the United States to stop the Soviet-based Superman ; and Lex Luthor creates Bizarro-like duplicates called " Liberators " in the limited series JLA: The Nail ( 1998 ).

( a deliberately over-the-top, over-sized single-issue comic book, intended as a parody of formulaic superhero fights ), the graphic novel The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln ( done with a mixture of computer-generated and manually drawn digital images ), 12 issues writing DC Comics ' Superman Adventures, and the three-issue limited series Superman: Strength.

** The Man of Steel ( comics ), a six-issue comic book limited series about Superman released in 1986 by DC Comics

Siegel was invited in 1986 by DC Comics ' editor Julius Schwartz to write an " imaginary " final story for Superman, following Marv Wolfman's Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and before John Byrne's The Man of Steel miniseries, which reintroduced Superman.

Following the 1985-1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, Superman's history was extensively rewritten, initially eliminating all other survivors of Krypton in the revised version of his origin, including Krypto, so as to once again make the premise that Superman was truly the " Last Son of Krypton " a valid one.

His abilities are limited only by his willpower ( he could, for example, make Superman morbidly obese by snapping his fingers ).

** The Man of Steel ( comics ), a six-issue comic book limited series about Superman released in 1986 by DC Comics

In the Pre-Crisis comic book title Superman Family, Clark is featured in a series of stories called " The Private Life of Clark Kent ," where he solves problems subtly without changing into Superman.

Traditionally, Lois Lane ( and sometimes others ) would often suspect Superman of truly being Clark Kent ; this was particularly prominent in Silver Age stories, including those in the series Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane.

** George Reeves in the 1950s live-action television series Adventures of Superman, who brought a naturalistic approach to the dual role.

** Dean Cain in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman showed Clark as a normal and shy everyman demonstrating occasional touches of clumsiness ( e. g., pretending to burn his mouth on coffee ), but still a highly skilled journalist, much like the current post-Crisis portrayal.

** Christopher Reeve in the Superman film series, who was praised for making the disguise's effectiveness credible to audiences, portrayed Clark Kent as massively clumsy, paranoid, and, of course, mild mannered.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

Further films in the series continued this tradition, with Clark blurring into Superman, changing at super-speed while he runs.

In the 1950s George Reeves series, Clark Kent is portrayed as a cerebral character who is the crime reporter for the Daily Planet and who as Kent uses his intelligence and powers of deduction to solve crimes ( often before Inspector Henderson does ) before catching the villain as Superman.

Clark Kent's character is given one of its heaviest emphases in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

In the season ten finale of the series he fully adopts the Superman identity, when he takes action to save Earth from Darkseid, who was drawn to Earth by Clark's actions and sought to take the hero as a host.

At the near end of each short, Clark gives out a smile and a wink to the audience ( that was carried over the 1966 Superman animated series ).

In addition to comics, it was designed for DC properties in other media, which was used for movies since Batman Begins, Superman Returns, and the TV series Smallville, Justice League Unlimited and The Batman, as well as for collectibles and other merchandise.

Originating in the Superman radio show series, the material is usually shown as having been created from the radioactive remains of Superman's native planet Krypton, and generally has detrimental effects on Superman and other Kryptonians.

The K-metal in the story was a piece of Krypton which robbed Superman of his strength while giving humans superhuman powers, a plot point which decades later made its way into the TV series Smallville.

" Kryptonite " was introduced in June 1943 on the Superman radio series, in the story arc " The Meteor from Krypton ".

Other colors of kryptonite, having different effects, began to show up frequently beginning in late 1950s comics, reaching a peak in appearances in 1960s Superman series.