Superman as Christ Figure

From Ten Cent Plague

Superman, the Man of steel in the guise of the mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, was not wholly original creation sprung from the depths of adolescent dreams; he merely seem to their fulfillment. Developed primarily by Siegel, who read science fiction of pulp magazines as well as comic strips, Superman was a mix of ideas swirling around the soup of junk culture in the 1930s: the superstrong protector of lesser creatures (Burroughs Tarzan, publisher street and Smits Doc Savage -- the "Man of bronze" with the first in quark); a hero to secret identity (Zorro in the movies, the shadow in the Green hornet on the radio, the spider in the pulps) to see; and the costumed crime fighter (all appear as a secret identities, including the Phantom, leaf talks newspaper strip character, wore purple leotard). He had dozens of distant ancestors in classical mythology, of course, as was a prominent one among the religions to follow. There was an obvious precedent for the basic story of Superman, in which a wise and mighty father in the heavens since his only son to Earth, where he performed miraculous feats for the benefit of mankind."

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