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: The Man of Tomorrow Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Superman: The Man of Tomorrow ("MOT") is the title of a comic book series published by DC Comics that ran for 16 issues from 1995 to 1999, featuring the adventures of Superman. At the time, the four Superman titles ("Action Comics", "The Adventures of Superman", "Superman", and "") were released weekly with an intertwining story. "The Man of Tomorrow" title was created to fill the extra week in months with five weeks. At about this time, however, DC began its fifth week events, disrupting the schedule of "The Man of Tomorrow", and it was subsequently