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 Man Who Evolved the superhuman to his original human state. Marvel comics character Modok and DC comics Hector Hammond are similar human beings, who evolve into future brings .Other characters, in various Superman and Fantastic Four comics, in the 1980s used similar themes. The Man Who Evolved "The Man Who Evolved" is a science fiction short story by American writer Edmond Hamilton, first published in the April 1931 issue of "Wonder Stories". In his comments on the story in "Before the Golden Age", Isaac Asimov called it the first science fiction short story (as opposed to novel) that impressed him so much it