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Name: Clark Joseph Kent [Earth Name]
Kal-El [Kryptonian Name]
Age: 35
(see below)
Height: 6 feet, 3 inches
Weight: 225 pounds
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Occupation: Pulitzer investigative reporter, columnist and
Foreign Correspondent for the Daily Planet newspaper; adventurer as the
superhero Superman, writer of four novels
Known Relatives: Jor-El
[Kryptonian father, deceased]
Lara [Kryptonian mother, deceased]
Jonathan
Kent [adoptive father]
Martha Kent [adoptive mother]
Lois Lane [wife]
Marital Status: Married to Lois Lane
Group Affiliation: Justice League
America
Base of Operations: The city of Metropolis, U.S.A.
Current
Address: 1938 Sullivan Place, Metropolis
[Clark's Previous Address: Apartment
3-D, 344 Clinton Street, Metropolis]
[Lois' Previous Address: 55 Broome
Street, Metropolis]
Birthday: Traditionally February 29. In Action
Comics #655 (July 1990) a Smallville newspaper clipping shows Jonathan and
Martha Kent had a child "on or about February 28th".
First Comic Book
Appearance: Action Comics #1 (June 1938), The Man of Steel #1
[Post-"Crisis"/Modern series] (July 1986)
Superman created by Jerry
Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (artist).
Superman's
Powers
Clark Kent's Kryptonian body acts as a solar battery
absorbing solar energy which can then be used as various remarkable powers. If
Earth had a red sun like Krypton's, Clark would not have these powers. Using his
powers causes Clark to use up his stored yellow sun energy. He can lose his
powers if he expends a lot of energy quickly (e.g. during his battle with the
monster Doomsday) or if he spends too much time away from a yellow sun while in
outer space. When low on solar energy, Clark can 'recharge' if exposed to a
source of yellow sun energy. The rate at which he 'recharges' can vary. When he
has absorbed excess solar energy, his power levels have been above normal until
the excess power is burned up.Superman's superpowers include:
Strength -
although varying depending on his energy levels, Clark is among the strongest
superheroes on Earth, capable of lifting a plane.
Flight - able to defy
gravity, possibly through sheer force of will.
Invulnerability - years of
exposure to yellow solar energy have caused Clark's Kryptonian body to become
almost indestructible. His natural bio-electric aura also has limited force
field properties protecting items near his skin e.g. his costume. His cape is
not protected by his aura.Clark can survive in outer space as long as he has a
breathing apparatus, and doesn't lose too much solar energy. Without an air
supply, Superman can last between an hour and ninety minutes in space, after
taking a deep breath. Using his powers of flight and super-speed Clark can
travel inter-planetary distances by himself. Interstellar distances require
assistance e.g. a spaceship, teleportation belt.
Super-speed - capable of
superhuman speed, Clark can fly from Metropolis to have dinner with Lois Lane in
Paris, France, or in a few minutes fly to the Moon.
Super-breath - Clark's
invulnerability and strength exist internally too, affecting his skeleton and
internal organs. After inhaling deeply he can expel the air in a gale-force
wind.
Super-hearing - Capable of blocking out and discerning a single known
voice within a city.
Vision - Clark can detect electromagnetic energy in more
than the normal visible spectrum:
X-Ray vision - lead appears opaque
IR
vision
Microscopic
Telescopic
Heat Vision - additionally, Clark can
release solar energy in the form of Heat Vision as a weapon.Besides the using up
of his solar energy, Clark has two other
weaknesses: Magic & Kryptonite
Created by internal pressures that caused
Krypton's explosion, kryptonite is the ore form of kryptonium. It looks like a
green glowing rock. It is very hazardous to Superman. If exposed to kryptonite,
Clark will experience pain and rapidly lose his powers. If exposed for much more
than an hour he would die. If suffering kryptonite poisoning, Clark can recover
if he gets away from the kryptonite.When Clark's birthing matrix left Krypton, a
fragment of kryptonite became embedded in the tail section. Villain Lex Luthor
obtained this fragment and used part of it for a ringstone, to protect himself
from Superman. After being exposed to it for a year, Luthor found the radiation
destroyed his hand, and was killing his body through cancer, necessitating he
obtain a prosthetic hand, and later a new cloned body.Note: Another villain, Mr.
Mxyzptlk, a Fifth Dimensional being who can use super-science that resembles
'magic' once created red kryptonite to temporarily remove Clark's powers.
Without Mr. Mxyzptlk's powers, though, this 'red kryptonite' would be harmless
to anyone, and is in no way connected to genuine green kryptonite. When Superman
captured three criminals in a "pocket universe" he used gold kryptonite
from that universe.
 
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