Five Things You Never Knew About Superman-- Part 2

3. HE DOESN'T JUST FIGHT FICTIONAL VILLAINS LIKE LEX LUTHER AND MR. MXYZPTIK: In a 1940 story commissioned for Look Magazine, Superman hauled Hitler and Stalin before a League of Nations war crimes tribunal, and he battled white-hooded Ku Klux Klansmen in a 1946 radio serial.

Wasn't Uncle Joe on our side? Or was this before he was on our side back when he and Hitler sort of were allies? Oddest of all, in 1978, he boxed Muhammed Ali--and lost. How could that be?

4. HE FAILED HIS ARMY PHYSICAL EXAM DURING WORLD WAR II: Kind of hard to believe. he's the soldier I'd want in my platoon. "Clark Kent to the front against those tanks." Why? You Ask? He inadvertantly read an eye chart in the adjoining room with his x-ray vision. Oops!!

5. HE'S (PROBABLY) JEWISH: Superman creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel gave plenty of clues-- from Superman's Kryptonian name Kal-El (Hebrew for "Vessel of God") to his origin story straight out of Exodus (as with Moses, his parents launched him to safety and adoption by gentiles, Martha and Jonathan Kent.)

Now, Adam Sandler can add Superman to his "Channakuh" song.

--Cooter