InterestingFacts: Superman Originally Couldn't Fly
Original photo by Venimages/ Alamy Stock Photo Superman Originally Couldn’t Fly Since his 1938 debut in Action Comics No. 1 , Superman has evolved into an even more powerful superhero than the original character. While he’s always been super strong and super fast, he didn’t initially have his now-famous ability to fly. You’ve probably heard the slogan “able to leap tall buildings in a single bound” — that comes from his ability to jump an eighth of a mile at a time, which is originally as close as he came to being able to fly. The first implied instance of Superman taking flight was on an August 1939 cover of the British magazine Triumph , where the superhero appears to be flying into space. It was also hinted at in the second episode of The Adventures of Superman radio program in 1940. Then came artist Leo Nowak, who, assuming the hero had been given the power of flight, mistakenly drew Superman hovering above the ground in 1941’s Superman No. 10 , which some now consider to