How do Superheroes such as Superman Age over the Years?

Question

I mean he at least has been around since the 1950's and still looks young and does not have any gray hairs except for Superman you sometimes see from the Infinite crisis books.

Is having a Super-Power the true Fountain of youth for most Heroes?

Answer 1

Roy Thomas one of the all-time great comic book creators once stated that his World War II based book The All Star Squadron ran 12 issues (one year) for each month of the war.

This seems like a pretty good time line for most of the DCU at least (Marvel I am not to sure of. Franklin Richards drives me insane is he six, three or ten?). One Year (12 Months) would take 144 issues of a comic book. Ten Years (120 Months) would be 1440 issues a mark no one has yet reached. Of course some months would be faster (a la DC One Year Later: 52) and some slower

Answer 2

A) comic books don't follow our time line. So a charictor in DC marvel ect.,from 1934 can start out as 18 yrs old and fifty years later still be 18 or 21 or something! It's just how all the comic books work it.
B) Superman is from annother planet. Because our sun gives him energy and our planet has a lower gravety than krypton Superman has limitless power and suposedlly life as well.

Answer 3

I think it depends on the superhero.

Alien superheroes, like Superman, and gods, like Wonder Woman, do age, but age very, very slowly. Most other earthborn heroes - unless graced with immortality or some otherworldly power that allows them to remain young - seem to age and die normally, in various different media (manga, for one).

At least, thats what it seems like, and certainly in at least one Elseworlds comic, it's implied. But I may be wrong, since Elseworlds isn't quite canon in DC.

Answer 4

An aging superhero would reduce its star power. Then they would seem just human.

Answer 5

ummmm they don't? because they're SUPERHEROES...if i was SUPER...i wouldn't have wrinkles either!! :D