Superman (Earth-Two)

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“	Somewhere, in our darkest night, we made up the story of a man who will never let us down.	„
	~ Grant Morrison

“	As long as men thrill to daring deeds... as long as they dream of high adventure and the throwing-off of the shackles of mortal limitations... the original Superman who burst upon a startled world in 1938 will live. And that, hopefully, will be a very long time indeed.	„
	~ Roy Thomas

Summary

The Golden Age Superman is the original superhero. He was born as Kal-L on Krypton, and later lived on Earth in his identity as Clark Kent, a reporter for the Daily Star, and as Superman, the protector of Metropolis and Earth. He eventually married his co-worker, Lois Lane, and became the Daily Star's editor-in-chief.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 8-C | High 6-B | 4-C | 2-C | 2-C

Key: Early Golden Age | Mid Golden Age | Late Golden Age | Silver Age | Infinite Crisis

Name: Kal-L, Clark Kent, Superman

Origin: DC Comics (Earth-Two). Action Comics #1 (Initial established debut), Justice League of America Issue #73 (Retroactive reestablished debut)

Gender: Male

Age: Unknown, but he appears to be in the same age group as Earth-Two Batman, who was born on April 7th, 1915

Classification: Kryptonian Alien

Powers and Abilities:

• Powers
• Resistances

Originally only Superhuman Physical Characteristics. By the end of the Golden Age he had basically all his known powers, such as Flight, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Time Travel, Regeneration (At least Mid-Low; scales to his Post-Crisis counterpart), Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vision, X-Ray Vision, Heat Vision, and Freeze Breath. In addition, his powers include Mind Manipulation (Can telepathically control opponents with his will and hypnotize opponents), Photographic Memory (Demonstrated here), Limited Shapeshifting (Can alter his features and size to a certain extent), Minor Body Control (Can temporarily stop his heart), Pressure Points (Knocked a man out for hours with a precise nerve strike), Construction (Built a ship in minutes; built a giant, self-supporting underground city in seconds), Heat Manipulation (His X-ray vision produces heat capable of melting bullets), Intimidation(Seen here), Underground Mobility (As shown here.), Automatic Translation (Could understand a mermaid's language), Limited Air Manipulation via Super Breath (Blew out a star), Limited Vibration Manipulation (Destroyed a building by singing to match its resonance frequency), Limited Sound Manipulation (Projected his voice into police broadcasts and out of other's mouths using ventriloquism)

Resistance to Electricity (Withstood millions of volts of electricity without flinching), Heat and Fire (Withstood plunging through a red star, which depowered him), Poison (Inhaled deadly gas and was unharmed), Lava (Unharmed by boiling hot lava), Deconstruction (A disintegration attack only knocked him unconscious), Matter Manipulation (Was unaffected by a subatomic attack), Paralysis (Proved to be immune to a paralysis ray), Sleep Manipulation (Knockout gas did not affect him), Mind Manipulation (Resisted hypnosis and fire that burned the mind and sapped intelligence), Acid (A powerful acid only gave him a bath), Radiation (Was immune to deadly radiation), and Extreme Cold (Could fly in space without protection)

Attack Potency: Building level (Destroyed an entire factory) | Large Country level (Moved the Appalachian Mountain Range across a large distance) | Star level (Casually blew up a sun with Super Breath. Created a star by smashing moons together) | Low Multiverse level (Repeatedly stalemated Pre-Crisis Superman. Comparable to Superboy-Prime) | Low Multiverse level (Fought Post-Crisis Superman to a standstill, shattering the boundaries of Space-Time and changing timelines. Caught a punch from and hurt Doomsday. Fought and defeated Zoom)

Speed: Supersonic (Outran a bullet) | At least Hypersonic+ (Moved the Appalachian Mountain Range across a large distance) | Massively FTL+. Immeasurable by flying through time | Massively FTL+. Immeasurable by flying through time | Massively FTL+

Lifting Strength: Class M (Lifted a military cruise ship. Cruiser ships generally weigh in at over 20,000 tons in average) | Class P (Lifted the Appalachian Mountain Range) | Class Z (Comparable to Wonder Woman) | At least Multi-Stellar, possibly higher | Stellar

Striking Strength: Building level | Large Country level | Star level | Low Multiverse level | Low Multiverse level (Comparable to the Post-Crisis Superman)

Durability: Building level | Large Country level | Star level | Low Multiverse level | Low Multiverse level (Unaffected by an attack that staggered Power Girl (Pre-Flashpoint))

Stamina: Superhuman (Ran a race around the world without breaking a sweat)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Interstellar with powers

Standard Equipment: None notable

Intelligence: Above Average

Weaknesses: Kryptonite, Red Suns, Magic

Notes:

• Before making any changes to this page, please read and follow the Power-scaling Rules for Marvel and DC Comics.
• The reason why Justice League of America Issue #73 is listed as Superman's retroactive debut, is because of his universe being written out as an alternate reality of the main DC universe Earth-One, making Pre-Crisis Superman be the character that started his debut on Action Comics #1, but by only following the general narrative of the comic book story.

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