appeared in 1938 in DC comics the man of steel came to earth from the planet krypton in a rocket ship some farmers found the baby and brought him up Clark Kent grew up to be a tall shy teenager with short dark hair and glasses he moved to metropolis and worked as a reporter for a newspaper and everyone made fun of him but Clark isn t and ordinary person Dressed in his blue uniform and red cape he can fly vary fast he has superhuman strength he can shoot lasers from his eyes and see through walls we is always there to save people from crime and danger and then he goes back to his everyday life