An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.


Books with substantial mentioning of Superman

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Tony Thomas
Marlon Brando und seine Filme
München, 1981

Reviews

Jim Beaver, Superman, in: Films in Review, vol. 30, 1979 pp. 119-120

Chris Hewitt, Superman: The Christopher Reeve Collection, Richard Donner's cut of Superman II is a very different beast, in: Empire, nr. 210 (December), 2006 pp. 190-191 (DVD review)