Comics Superman
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Feb/080
Feb/080
Comics Superman
What are the similarities and differences between Superman in the comics and Superman in animated tv series?
I'm doing a project for my Mythology class on the evolution of Superman and I can't seem to find much on the similarities and/or differences between the versions of Superman in comics and the versions of him in different animated tv series.
Help?
If you can, sources would be much appreciated. 
Basically all non-Comic versions reset his arrival so that their story is set in or around the present.
I.e. Smallville had a 3yr old Clark land in 1989,
while Lois and Clark had him land as an infant in 1966
Superman The animated Series never really established dates, for the present or the past,
JLU followed the same rules using the 90 years in the future for the Batman Beyond centric Epilogue episode
the scope and scale of his powers varies across all Media, even within the comics depending on the writer and the needs of the story
another more subtle change is that Canonically Superman should have blue eyes, but live action projects neverexclusivelyy cast for it, so he's had both Brown (L&C) and Green(Smallville)
other variables are Villain origins and back stories
Lex has been...
a mad scientist,
criminal genius,
Billionaire Industrialist,
Politician,
Scientist / Billionaire,
and his own clone posing as his son.
some of these were progressive changes through the story, others ret-cons or rewrites to modernize him
Bizzarro has been
A failed Clone (either by Lex, or generic scientist)
parallel Universe Superman
and Alien Villain / phantom (who copied his DNA)
Lois' father has been
Scientist
General
even a Journalist himself I believe
Lex's father has been
A petty criminal
Billionaire
upper Middle class
Lois has been
either a terrible speller, or an exceptional one
Known martial arts or not
been a decent cook or couldn't boil water
really it can change anywhich way depending on what the writers need for the story they're telling Wiki is a fairly good catalog of all the changes, but double check just to be safe
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