In the earliest Superman comics, Clark Kent's primary purpose was to fulfill the perceived dramatic requirement that a costumed superhero cannot remain on full duty all the time.

Among them was an explanation of why the natives of Krypton perished if they had possessed super powers on their native world ( as was the case in the earliest versions of Krypton outlined above, although this only became a problem once Superman — and by extension anyone from Krypton — was portrayed as increasingly powerful, able to withstand nuclear explosions, contrasted with his original power level in which a bursting mortar shell could penetrate his skin ).

One of the earliest, and most frequently cited examples of a damsel in distress in comics is Lois Lane, who is eternally getting into trouble and needing to be rescued by Superman.

Virtually every issue featured DC's two leading superheroes, Superman and Batman, with the earliest issues also featuring Batman's sidekick, Robin.

Steppenwolf is one of the earliest survivors of Doomsday, the monster who once killed Superman.

One of the earliest proper Belgian comics was Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, with the story Tintin in the Land of the Soviets which was published in Le Petit Vingtième in 1929.

Campbell made his earliest attempts at autobiographical comics in the late 1970s with In the Days of the Ace Rock and Roll Club.

In the earliest Golden Age Superboy comics, the name of Clark Kent's hometown is uncertain.

J. M. DeMatteis began his comics career on DC's House of Mystery title over a decade before the formation of Vertigo, and later became one of the earliest Vertigo creators thanks in large part to his proposed Touchmark projects.

Sean Phillips earliest American comics work was in the pages of pre-Vertigo Hellblazer, and in May 1993 he became one of the early Vertigo artists by illustrating ( with assists from Paul Peart and Sean Harrison Scoffield ) the entire 16-issue run of Kid Eternity ( 1993-4 ).

While the more recent Archie comics have been deliberately vague about Riverdale's location, it was not ambiguous in the earliest run of the comic.

* The Origin of the Bat Cave A blog post by Bill Jourdain about the earliest comics appearances of the Batcave

In the late 1940s, the duo created the field of romance comics, and were among the earliest pioneers of horror comics.

* Several Marsupilami cameos and tributes have been produced in Franco-Belgian comics ; among the earliest in Jijé's series Blondin et Cirage, in the volume Les soucoupes volantes ( 1956 ), where the characters Blondin and Cirage find the creature Marsupilami Africanis, a slightly different species than the South American Marsupilamus Fantasii.

Howe's earliest commissions included political cartoons, magazine illustrations, comics, animated films, advertising, of which he says were nightmares.

Ghost World was among the earliest " literary " comics to be marketed and sold through conventional book stores as a graphic novel ( this despite the fact that Clowes has been critical of the term " graphic novel ").

Charles Burns ' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and Another Room Magazine of Oakland, CA, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of RAW, the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman.

( The earliest and most popular comics in mini-and digest sizes — predating not only the term minicomic, but even the standard comic-book format — were the anonymous and pornographic Tijuana bibles of the 1920s.

* The Girl in the Coffee Cup ( initially started on comics. com, then restarted 2002-02-19 ; the strip changed to color on 2002-03-11, the earliest strip in the GoComics. com archive ).

In the earliest comics, He-Man is a wandering barbarian on Eternia, a world dealing with the aftermath of a Great War that has devastated the civilizations that once reigned, but has left behind fantastical machinery and weapons.

First written in the earliest Wonder Woman comics, Diana Prince's role was multifaceted.

Megatron's earliest fictional depiction in comics was in a two part short story told in Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye series of character profiles.

Though comics were the main focus, many issues included galleries of non-comics illustration and illustrated prose or non-fiction pieces ; for example, Raw Volume 2 Number 2 featured one of the earliest published articles on Henry Darger, complete with fold-out color reproductions of his paintings and diaries.

His earliest strips in the 1970s appeared in such British small press comics as Graphixus, Moon Comix, Yikes, Animal Bite Comix, No Ducks, Phobos, Streetcomix, Free Comix, Warrior and Fish.

Dringenberg's earliest work was in independent comics in the 1980s for publishers such as Eclipse and Vortex, including Enchanter, Alien Worlds, Total Eclipse and Kelvin Mace.

* Lake, Fred & Wright, Hal ( 1974 ) A Bibliography of Archery: an indexed catalogue of 5, 000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

The oldest part of the present semi-ruin constitutes one of the earliest surviving stone castles in mainland Scotland.

It includes the some of the earliest objects made by humans 2 million years ago ; the art and archaeology of Europe from the earliest times to the present day, including the history of Britain under Roman occupation.

The ancient Ur of Sumer, in present day Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq is one of the world's earliest сities.

– The Fermanagh story: a documented history of the County Fermanagh from the earliest times to the present day – Enniskillen: Cumann Seanchais Chlochair, 1969.

Though the Bible is part of the LDS canon and members believe it to be the word of God, they believe that omissions and mistranslations are present in even the earliest known manuscripts.

In the modern era, flaming was used at east coast engineering schools as a present participle in a crude expression to describe an irascible individual and by extension to such individuals on the earliest Internet chat rooms and message boards.

Test score increases have been continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to the present.

The increase has been continuous and roughly linear from the earliest days of testing to the present.

The history of the devil and the idea of evil: from the earliest times to the present day ( 1899 ) full text

* Abendana, Jacob in The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, New York ; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 – 06, volume 1, p 53.

Test score increases have been continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to the present.

As of 2012, the earliest pottery found anywhere in the world, dating to 20, 000 to 19, 000 years before the present, was found at Xianrendong Cave in the Jiangxi province of China.

Even since the earliest recorded references to rowing, the sporting element has been present.

The earliest surviving part of the present castle may have been built by Rhys or by his son, Rhys Gryg.

" Rooster ( Gallus domesticus ) bones were identified at Lachish dating to early Iron II ", but even earlier not to be ruled out, which corresponds was well with " as for Palestine, the earliest chicken bones are present in Iron Age I strata in Lachish and Tell Hasben ".

Memoirs of Lenawee County, Michigan: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Lenawee County.

The Celts: A history from earliest times to the present.

General popular history of the 1001 Nights from its earliest days to the present.

The earliest evidence of herbivory by tetrapod organisms is seen in fossils of jawbones where dental occlusion ( process by which teeth from the upper jaw come in contact with those in the lower jaw ) is present.

Those of these sculptures that belonged to the temples within the walls, present a peculiar and archaic style of art, and are universally recognized as among the earliest extant specimens of Greek sculpture Those, on the contrary, which have been found among the ruins of the temple on the opposite hill, are of a later and more advanced style, though still retaining considerable remains of the stiffness of the earliest art.

The Dacians, situated north of the lower Danube in the area of the Carpathians and Transylvania, are the earliest named people on the present territory of Romania.