Strange Visitor Superman's History
Rocketed to Earth from the doomed planet Krypton, Kal-El was found by Martha and Jonathan Kent, and raised as their own son, Clark Kent, with the aid of Professor Phineas Potter; at some point prior to 1926, the Kryptonian hound Krypto had joined him, a playmate to the boy as he explored his burgeoning superhuman powers under the light of the yellow sun. By 1938, Clark began his career as Superman, defender of Earth, and the revelation that man wasn't alone in the universe would spur mankind to push itself farther than ever previously imagined.
By 1939 construction on the starship Phaethon was completed, and one day after working together with Batman and Dracula to battle the forces of Frankenstein's Forbidden Army, Superman went to see the rocket's launch, powered by a new red version of the Kryptonite mineral. However, a problem with the fuel resulted in disaster and the apparent annihilation of the ship, yet due to its disappearance without a trace, Superman believed it hadn't been destroyed; regardless, the incident was his first major failure.
Seemingly unaging, Superman would battle the forces of evil over the course of decades, gain new and incredible abilities, fall for Lois Lane, find his long-lost relative Kara, and look after the Bottle City of Kandor, among his many other magnificent trials and deeds.
By 2013 Superman primarily worked for the government but took the time to attend a rededication ceremony for the Metropolis Spaceport alongside Lois, at the site of the loss of the Phaethon, to commemorate his 75th anniversary. Mr. Mxyzptlk revealed to him as an anniversary present that the Phaethon indeed survived, trapped outside of time due to its unstable Red K fuel and unreachable even by the 5-dimensional imp, yet still potentially capable of being saved one day.
Superman would live countless epochs, outlasting his home planet (which would come to revere him as a role model for all humanity, and would successfully utilize Red Kryptonite as a fuel to power the exodus from the doomed planet), mortal life, and ultimately even the gods. Eventually, he would separate himself into thousands of counterparts to roam the cosmos, while the prime "Superman Null" personally held back creation's end. After the last being in the universe, the god Anu finally died, Superman reunified, and encouraged by the spirit of Lois Lane, outflew the waves of entropy and tore open the fabric of reality to finally reach the Phaethon, which aged only minutes over the billions of years in which it was trapped. Reassuring the crew that all wasn't lost with the Earth and that he would remain with them no matter what, they journeyed together into the unknown of the new universe.
