The Reign of the Superman name "Herbert S. Fine", combining the first name of a cousin with his mother's maiden name. The term "Superman" derives from a common English translation of the term "Übermensch", which originated with Friedrich Nietzsche's statement, ""Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen"" ("I will teach you all the Superman"), in his 1883 work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". The term "Superman" was popularized by George Bernard Shaw with his 1903 play "Man and Superman". The character Jane Porter refers to Tarzan as a "superman" in the 1912 pulp novel "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Siegel would later name Tarzan as
The Play What I Wrote Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple", the "play within a play" (with a cameo by a mystery guest star) which formed the play's second half. It is named after the "play wot I wrote", the inept play supposedly written by Wise and featuring a celebrity guest which formed the finale to each Morecambe and Wise show. In "The Play What I Wrote", "Sean" writes a similarly inept play and is humoured by "Hamish" in the first half by having it performed. As in the Morecambe and Wise antecedent, the celebrity would play him or herself set up to appear, rather foolishly,