Enter the Reign of Super-Man...
“The Reign of the Super-man” by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster: the very first “superman” story is not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment. There are all the main elements of the superman myth... A bald super-villain, an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings, telescopic-vision, aliens, and an indomitable quest for absolute power....