Superman (Earth-One) details on the Earth-One Superman's origin and childhood/teenage years, see Superboy (Kal-El)." The Earth-One Superman's origin story was retold in various stories; the most prominent retellings were in "Superman" (volume 1) #146 (July 1961), "Limited Collectors' Edition" #C-31 (November–December 1974), and "Action Comics" #500 (October 1979). As recounted in these retellings, Superman was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton. Upon learning of Krypton's imminent destruction, his father Jor-El and mother Lara sent Kal-El in an experimental rocket to Earth moments before the planet exploded. Landing outside of the town of Smallville, Kal-El was found and adopted by an elderly farm
Superman: Peace on Earth finds a starving young woman that leads to him look up the topic of world hunger. Wanting to help, Superman proposes to the United Nations to help to end world hunger through the gesture of spending a day delivering as much food as he can to settlements that need it anywhere on the planet, an idea met with significant controversy but ultimately given the go-ahead. With tankers filled with food, Superman flies to starving and impoverished locations all over the Earth, and is met with varying levels of gratitude, praise, fear and frenzy. Eventually, Superman arrives in a country whose