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 character and cast dismisses it, saying, "No one with the power of Superman would be living as a normal man." Superman's Kryptonian physiology has been a matter of serious and humorous discussion, such as in Larry Niven's essay "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex". The novelization of the comics storyline "The Death of Superman", "The Death and Life of Superman" by Roger Stern, suggests that Superman's alien DNA has far too many and far too complex chromosomes. The 1998 crossover story "DC One Million", reveals Superman as the ancestor of a dynasty of part-Kryptonian protectors of the Earth, reference is made in the