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 Terra-Man have killed each other. Supergirl, in the meanwhile, has recently died. Upon returning from a government expedition in space, Superman reunites with old enemy Bizarro. Historically a harmless dunce who says the opposite of what he means, he changes his "modus operandi" to become a "perfect imperfect duplicate" of Superman, by first going on a killing spree (since Superman never kills anyone), deliberately destroying the Bizarro World (since Superman's home planet of Krypton was destroyed in an accident) and coming to Earth as an adult (since Superman was sent to Earth as a baby) and then committing suicide,