Man and Superman Man and Superman Man and Superman is a four-act drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1903. The series was written in response to a call for Shaw to write a play based on the Don Juan theme. "Man and Superman" opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 23 May 1905, but it omitted the third act. A part of the act, "Don Juan in Hell" (Act 3, Scene 2), was performed when the drama was staged on 4 June 1907 at the Royal Court. The play was not performed in its entirety until 1915, when the Travelling
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? of the limited series "The Man of Steel" which would reboot Superman's continuity. Outgoing editor, Julius Schwartz, decided to "make believe" his last two issues of "Superman" and "Action Comics" were the actual last two issues ever. Initially, Schwartz wanted Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel to write the story as a way to book-end the character, however Siegel was unable due to legal restrictions. So while at a convention, Schwartz asked British writer, Alan Moore, who had been developing the character of Swamp Thing extensively, to be the writer of this final story. Moore pored over the extensive history of Superman