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Superman (disambiguation)

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1292513 ↗
Source-derived summary

Superman (also known as Clark Kent and Kal-El) is a DC comic book superhero. The Superman franchise is a media franchise based on the character.

Superman may also refer to:

The Superman franchise

Comic books and strips

Superman (comic book), 1939–present

Superman vol. 2, 1987–2006

Superman (Volume 3), 2011–2016

Superman (comic strip), a newspaper comic strip, 1939–1966

Fictional characters

Superman (1978 film series character)

Superman (DC Extended Universe)

Superman (Earth-One), the Silver Age incarnation of Superman

Superman (Earth-Two), an alternate version of the fictional superhero

Superman (Kal Kent), the Superman of the 853rd century

Superman (Kingdom Come), an alternate version of Superman

Superman (Hernan Guerra), an alternate version of Chris Kent

Clark Kent (Superman & Lois)

Superman (Jon Kent), the son and successor of Clark Kent

Kong Kenan, the Super-Man of China

Film

Superman (1940s animated film series)

Superman (1941 film), the first film in the 1940s animated series

Superman (serial), a 1948 film serial

Superman (1978 film), also called Superman: The Movie, starring Christopher Reeve as the DC Comics superhero

Superman (1980 film), an Indian Telugu-language film

Superman (1987 film), an Indian Hindi-language film

Superman (1997 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film

Superman (2025 film), featuring the DC Comics superhero

Television

Adventures of Superman (TV series), 1952-1958

Superman (TV series), 1988

Superman: The Animated Series, 1996–2000

My Adventures with Superman, 2023-present

Gaming

Superman (pinball), released by Atari in 1979

Superman (1979 video game), for the Atari 2600

Superman (1987 video game), for the NES

Superman (1988 video game), an arcade game

Superman (1992 video game), for the Mega Drive/Genesis

Superman 64, or Superman: The New Superman Adventures, 1999, for the Nintendo 64

Other fictional characters

Bill the superman, a character in the short story ‘’The Manhood of Edward Robinson’’ by Agatha Christie, 1924

Bill Dunn or the Superman, a character from The Reign of the Superman by Jerry Siegel, 1933

Superman (Psychomech), a fictional race in the novel Psychomech

Music

Albums

Superman (Arash album), 2014

Superman (Gary Chaw album), 2006

Superman (Barbra Streisand album), 1977

Superman, by Machi, 2005

Superman: The Best of the RCA Years, 1979, by Alison MacCallum

Songs

"Superman" (Black Lace song), 1981

"Superman" (Donna Fargo song), 1972

"Superman" (Eminem song), 2003

"Superman" (Keith Urban song), 2020

"Superman" (Lazlo Bane song), 2000, the original opening theme of Scrubs

"Superman" (Morgan Wallen song), 2025

"Superman" (Pepe Luis Soto song), released by Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch, 1977

"Superman" (Stereophonics song), 2005

"Superman" (The Clique song), 1969, covered by R.E.M. in 1986

"Superman", by Crystal Kay from the 2012 album Vivid

"Superman", by Gabriella Cilmi from the 2010 album Ten

"Superman", by the Game from the 2008 album LAX

"Superman", by Goldfinger from the 1997 album Hang-Ups, notable for being featured in the Tony Hawk's skateboarding video game series

"Superman", by Rachel Platten from the 2016 album Wildfire

"Superman", by Sachin Gupta, Sukhwinder Singh, Jaspreet Jasz and Kshitij Tarey from the 2012 Indian film Will You Marry Me?

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Superman (disambiguation)” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Superman, disambiguation and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1987, 2006, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Superman, disambiguation and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1292513. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1987, 2006 and 2011.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Superman (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.