Superman is confusing



Look, we all love Superman but with a character that long lived who has been written by many different writers it was inevitable that his comic story continuity would eventually become a snarled mess...but not in the expected manner.

Superman has been effectively had the same main back story in all incarnations: rocketed from a dying world to be raised by adopted parents. But the problem is in the details.

Those details really didn't matter until an effort to explain the difference between the Golden and Silver Age characters was made with which put the characters on two different realities called Earth-One and Earth-Two.

To make it easier to keep track of two Supermen it was stated that the Superman of Earth-Two had worked at the Daily Star under editor George Taylor and was the earlier Golden Age Superman. This plan didn't really work as people still remembered the actual Golden Age stories. However writers and editors now had an out: put those stories on yet anther Earth and say similar adventures happened on Earth-Two or Earth-One. e.

The problem was that writers and editors had different ideas on what stories happened on Earth-Two, Earth-One, or somewhere else (a situation that continues to this day). Also it raised the issue of Imaginary Stories actually taking place elsewhere.

The event was supposed clean things up but its one Earth one timeline concept when pearshaped within a year. Then DC would do history changing events like Zero Hour, hypertime, JLA/Avengers, and Infinite Crisis which messed up what little continuity the New Earth Superman did have.