The 'early days' of Superman, from original creators Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, pictured Superman's personality as rough and aggressive, attacking and terrorizing wife beaters, profiteers, a lynch mob and gangsters, with a 'Batman'-type, loose moral code.
His powers were relatively limited, consisting of superhuman strength that allowed him to lift a car over his head, run at amazing speeds and leap one-eighth of a mile.
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