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
Man and Superman play as a 58-page appendix. Both in the play and in the "Handbook" Shaw takes Nietzsche's theme that mankind is evolving, through natural selection, towards "superman" and develops the argument to suggest that the prime mover in selection is the woman: Ann Whitefield makes persistent efforts to entice Tanner to marry her yet he remains a bachelor. As Shaw himself puts it: "Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of the Doll's House and asserting herself as an individual". This is an explicit, intended reversal of Da Ponte's "Don Giovanni"; here Ann, representing Doña Ana,