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
Superman Playoffs and Super Bowl, Superman animated in the style of artist Curt Swan, again at the request of Seinfeld. Superman has also been used as reference point for writers, with Steven T. Seagle's graphic novel "Superman: It's a Bird" exploring Seagle's feelings on his own mortality as he struggles to develop a story for a Superman tale. Brad Fraser used the character as a reference point for his play "Poor Super Man", with "The Independent" noting the central character, a gay man who has lost many friends to AIDS as someone who "identifies all the more keenly with Superman's alien-amid-deceptive-lookalikes