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: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? and created a roadmap that would complete the stories and characters. To draw the story, Schwartz chose definitive Superman artist, Curt Swan, who had been drawing the character in various publications since "Superman" #51 in 1948. The story was originally published in "Superman" #423 and "Action Comics" #583 (both Sept. 1986). The first half of the story, published in "Superman", was billed as the comic's ""Historic Last Issue"" as it was retitled "Adventures of Superman" with #424. The framing device of "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" is the tale of a "Daily Planet" reporter, Tim Crane, in the