Superman Superman Superman is a fictional superhero created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. He first appeared in "Action Comics" #1, a comic book published on April 18, 1938. He appears regularly in American comic books published by DC Comics, and has been adapted to radio shows, newspaper strips, television shows, movies, and video games. Superman was born on the planet Krypton, and as a baby named Kal-El, was sent to Earth in a small spaceship by his scientist father Jor-El, moments before Krypton was destroyed in a natural cataclysm. His ship landed in the American countryside, where he
Aurora (fictional planet) Aurora at its height had a population of 200 million humans and 10 billion robots. The head of its planetary government was called the Chairman. The largest city on the planet was Eos (which also means "dawn"), the administrative and robotic center of Aurora, where Han Fastolfe and Gladia Solaria lived. The University of Eos and the Auroran Robotics Institute were both located within Eos. We see the planet at its height in "The Robots of Dawn". In "Prelude to Foundation", we learn that at least some of its inhabitants emigrated to Trantor, settling in the Mycogen Sector. The descendants