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Jerry Siegel had the most creative control in the Golden Age, which is the closest we have to Siegel's pure vision. Jerry Siegel's Superboy spin-off concept was conceived and proposed to DC in...

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Also long before Marv Wolfman had...

I disagree here. Jerry Siegel's Golden Age Luthor was more than just a mad scientist, John Byrne and Marv Wolfman's reboot of Luthor was more than just a business man.
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Well, when Mort started editing the main Superman titles, he began changing Superman by 1947, dictating the plotting of stories, including upping the powers extremely, etc.

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What inspired John Byrne's Krypton update was a combination of the basic Jerry Siegel concept of Krypton as a highly advanced alien planet, the uniformity Krypton in Donner's Superman: The Movie, and...

You doubt Denny O'Neil's abilities. I believe Denny could have written Weisinger's Superman if he had to, but that was not even what editor Julius Schwartz was asking Denny to do. After Weisinger...

Even following the turning into a phantom shtick, time traveling makes it very easy for Superman to figure it out, then travel back to his time and find the evidence he needs at Super-Speed and get...

That's a Siegel plot that I love. That plot was also in the George Reeves TV series with the episode "Five Minutes to Doom." However, for Weisinger's version of Superman's power level with the time...

If he doesn't have to struggle, and isn't at risk, there's no tension. Superhero writer Denny O'Neil said about Superman with the Weisinger imposed power level, "At one point he blew a star like...

It was definitely shown that Superman was not living in a perfect world where there was no darkness. The greed of the people who mobbed him was an early example of that. Lexcorp Luthor was also a...

Clark was developing powers before he was a teenager.
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I would do the opposite and reinstall The Man of Steel as the origin and continuity. A cross between Golden Age with some Silver Age elements and some modernizations. Clark, while not perfect, is a...

The highest power levels failed to give the character much physical challenges beyond temporary depowerments by Kryptonite, a sandman depowering Superman, solar energy, an exploded red sun, etc.

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Not at all like the mocking and belittling portrayal of African Americans on Amos & Andy as stupid dimwitted clowns. Byrne portrayed the Kents as intelligent and important advisers to Clark in his...

"Ignorance and probably prejudice towards rural people"? Why are you vilifying the writers of Superman with allegations of ignorance and prejudice towards rural people with absolutely no facts to...

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The over-the-top klutzy goofball portrayal of Clark Kent popularized by Christopher Reeve in the movies, to the point to where Clark even...

The things I feel have actually weighed down or limited the characters appeal and the perception of him:

The boosting up of Superman's powers to nearly infinite levels, popularized by the movies...

Clark did join Lois jogging once. Clark wasn't wearing sweaters while jogging, he wore sweatpants and a sweatshirt while jogging. Clark joined Lois jogging since he was trying to get her to date him...

Luthor was clearly the greedy power hungry (middle-aged) "yuppie" scum enthralled with his upper class social status. Superman/Clark Kent was the country farmboy at heart from small town rural...

Superman didn't display xenophobic fear, ignorance and hate of Krypton and Kryptonians. In The Man of Steel #6 (1986) "The Haunting" by John Byrne he acknowledged the fact that he is Krypton's sole...

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Siegel's Superman was originally called a vigilante and was at odds with the police originally. Byrne's version of Superman early on said he'd been called a vigilante....

Pre-Crisis Earth-One Superman feeling like such a loner on Earth showed that he wasn't gratefully appreciating all that he had. After all, that Superman had plenty of other Kryptonian survivors on...