In June, 1938, the first issue of Action Comics, with Superman on the cover, appeared on the newsstands. The first Superman story was 13 pages long. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. They had come up with the idea 1933 and were unsuccessful in their attempts to publish Superman to Pulp magazine publishers. This first issue included the first appearance of Lois Lane, and the paper they worked for was The Daily Star.













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Superman's worst enemy, Lex Luthor had red hair when he first appeared in Action Comics # 23. It was in Superman # 61 that Superman found out about Kryptonite, and found that he was really from Krypton. In 1986, to clean up story continuity from the past 48 years, DC and John Byrne produced, a six issue mini series, to redefine Superman for his second 50 years. In 1992, Superman was "killed off" by Doomsday, and you almost thought he wouldn't be back. He did return, and several battles later, figured out a way to defeat Doomsday, at least, so far.