i know that he couldn't fly originally. anything else he couldn't do then that he can now?
2006-07-09 11:43:20 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
but did he have heat vision and X-ray vision?
2006-07-09 11:58:52 · update #1
His original powers were super-strength, super-speed, and limited invulnerability.
2006-07-09 12:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Tyrone 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Back in 1938 when Superman debuted in Action Comics #1, Jerry Siegel wrote that Krypton was inhabited by a race of supermen. Joe Shuster drew one panel showing native Kryptonians leaping over rooftops. Through the years, as the Man's origin story got tweaked more and more, the editors at DC kind of got away from that particular established facet of the story and made it so that it was Earth's lighter gravity and yellow star that gave Clark his powers. No other native of his home planet had super powers, unless exposed to Earth's atmosphere. It would seem a moot point until the Phantom Zone villains were introduced, then Kandor, then Krypto, then Beppo. It got pretty ridiculous after a while. Superman works best when it's established that he is the SOLE survivor of the doomed planet Krypton.
2016-03-16 21:59:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originally, he was faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. He had super-strength, of course--the first cartoon shows him holding up a table by one leg as a baby. Not much else was specified in the comics--he first began to fly when the radio series began. The super strength, etc. was because the atmosphere on Krypton was so much denser. It forced its inhabitants to be stronger just to do what we do on Earth.
2006-07-10 08:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Super strength.
He could jump very high, not fly till almost 10 yeas later!
See threw every thing but led.
Heat, vision.
Super speed.
Super hearing.
He could "seance" danger.
TinckerBell
P.S. Superman was a evil villain in the begging. He was later made good and his evil original self gave way to Lexx, and Bizzaro.
2006-07-09 12:59:58 · answer #4 · answered by rosecult5763 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His original powers was his strength. As he grew up the other powers came. xray vision and heat vision.
2006-07-09 14:37:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
went something like this able to leap an 1/8 of a mile strong and only nothing less than a tank shell can pierce his skin
2006-07-09 11:50:19 · answer #6 · answered by NEOTEH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, he was born without powers... he gothis powers on Earth because the atmosphere was different than his home planet, so it kind of mutated him...
2006-07-09 13:46:12 · answer #7 · answered by Mexi Poff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
super stregth,jumping high,ray vison
2006-07-09 12:54:51 · answer #8 · answered by Adam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who knows
2006-07-09 11:45:15 · answer #9 · answered by Frances S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman
Hope this helps, good luck.
2006-07-09 11:59:51 · answer #10 · answered by Stickbreaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋