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 character and cast dismisses it, saying, "No one with the power of Superman would be living as a normal man." Superman's Kryptonian physiology has been a matter of serious and humorous discussion, such as in Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex". The novelization of the comics storyline "The Death of Superman", "The Death and Life of Superman" by Roger Stern, suggests that Superman's alien DNA has far too many and far too complex chromosomes. The 1998 crossover story "DC One Million", reveals Superman as the ancestor of a dynasty of part-Kryptonian protectors of the Earth, reference is made in the