>>40367
>The characters he was inspired by at his creation were John Carter of Mars, Samson and Moses according to his creators two of which are prominent characters in Jewish faith.
He's also somewhat strongly based on Hugo Danner from a novel called Gladiator, by Philip Wylie. Jerry Seigel denied knowledge of the novel, but reviewed the novel for a fanzine when he was in high school. DC later acknowledged the connection (once Gladiator was public domain). When the Crisis on Infinite Earths changed history and Superman was removed from Justice Society and All-Star Squadron continuity (since the original Superman from the Golden Age was erased from history), his role in historical stories was instead filled by a character called Iron Munro, stated to be Hugo Danner's illegitimate son.
>Especially when his role was inspired by the Golem from Jewish faith which is usually a being created from Clay made to protect the innocent, marginalized and oppressed within a society, particularly the Jewish people within those communities. Which is literally what Clark initially did,
It's also what any heroic figure does. His first adventure is rescuing a woman who was falsely convicted of murder and about to be executed. Then he prevents the girl he is simping over from being raped. Then he goes to Washington and threatens a corrupt senator into confessing. This leads him to find out the guy is warmongering to help his buddy who is into weapons manufacturing. He's starting a war in Latin America, so Superman takes the weapons guy there and shows him how shit it is until he promises to stop. Then he gets the leaders of the two armies and forces them to fistfight each other instead of sending thousands of men to die on their behalf.
That all happens in the first Superman story (covers Action Comics #1-2). He gets up to a lot of different stuff. I don't know. It doesn't feel particularly jewish to me, partially because it's ANTI-warmongering. You know the jews love starting wars in third world shitholes. The issue after that is about shutting down a mine because of dangerous conditions for the workers. Maybe you could consider that commie or something. But issue 13 is about how the taxicab union isn't just a mafia racket, but it's actually run by the first supervillain ever, the Ultra-Humanite, who reveals that he was actually behind most of the schemes Superman had been thwarting since he first appeared. I think attempts to say Golden Age Superman was very political, which almost all reference this first year of stories, are all reaching. Commies also try to reach and say Superman was going after rich people, but he also went after corrupt labor unions, and that actually leads to his first recurring villain.
>before settling on his alien origin he was even supposed to be an actual Golem made from newspaper.
Source? This sounds like some Grant Morrison metanarrative shit. Superman IS literally made out of newspaper, because he's a character in a comic book (originally intended to be a newspaper strip). Morrison also did his version of Ultraa in The Multiversity. In Pre-Crisis comics, Ultraa was the one superhero from Earth-Prime, the real world. Post-Crisis this Ultraa still sort of existed but his history was changed so now he was from the planet Almerac (home of Maxima) in the universe of New Earth (the main universe). Post-52, (and Post-Flashpoint,) Morrison established that on Earth 33 (which was only formed in 2006), which was essentially a copy of Earth-Prime (which was destroyed in 1986), Ultraa existed as a literal comic book. The comic itself IS the superhero. Not that it's flying around and stuff, but it's a message about the power of these stories in the real world. My point is, this sounds very much like saying Superman was supposed to literally be made out of newspaper.
Of course, years before Superman as we know him, the alien, Seigel and Shuster made a previous character called "The Super-Man." Small-time crook Bill Dunn gets psychic powers from a scientist's experiment and goes on a rampage before his powers wear off and leave him in the lurch. They also spoke of another version of Superman that never got published at all, created between Bill Dunn and Clark Kent, but they said this guy was pretty much just like their later creation, Slam Bradley, who is just a tough detective. When they couldn't get this version of Superman published, they destroyed the one copy that existed.
It should also be noted that Superman's family name wasn't originally "El," but "L." In the Superman newspaper comics, less than a year after Action Comics #1, the names Jor-L and Kal-L were used, but they were not used in the mainstream comic books. The newspaper strips were a different continuity, despite being made by the original creators. Superman's mother was also called "Lora" here. "Jor-el" (note the lowercase e) first appeared a few years later, in 1942, in a novel based on the Superman radio show, written by George Lowther, who was a writer for the show. "Lora" was also changed to "Lara," and that stuck. Jor-El and Lara first appeared in the comic book continuity in More Fun Comics 101 (1945), in The Origin of Superboy, which was thus one of the first times Superman's origin was retold and expanded. Superman #1 expanded it a bit, but not really the Krypton portion. The name Kal-El wasn't actually used in a comic book until Superman #113, from 1957. Jor-L and Kal-L were thus never used in actual comics continuity until decades later, as a retcon to differentiate Earth-Two from Earth-One.
Also, Seigel and Shuster previously used the name Jor-L for an unrelated character, a futurecop. But yes, Jorrel is a jew name.
>his disguise as Clark of slicked back hair hidden in a cap being something that Jewish men often did to hide their curly hair and avoid prosecution.
I prefer this over his fucking broccoli-head like in this pic.
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>>40370
Sounds like Moses was being humble yet trying to help. It was a tough job, dealing with all those fucking stupid jews, but he did what he was told and got the job done.
>>40377
Originally they said Kryptonians were super-evolved, owing to their world being older than ours, and that essentially that's what we could expect humans to be like in the far-future. As far as we know for prototype versions of Superman, there is Hugo Danner, a guy who got powers from his dad experimenting on him, Bill Dunn, a criminal who got powers from a good-guy scientist experimenting on him, a tough detective akin to Slam Bradley, and then finally Clark Kent, who got his powers from being an alien.