In pictures: Superman through the years

He's back! Superman returns to the big screen with 25-year-old Brandon Routh playing the hero from the Planet Krypton

This a poster for the first film of Superman, played by Kirk Alyn who put on the blue costume and became faster than a speeding bullet in 1948

Is it a bird, is it a plane no it's Superman! George Reeves took on the television part for six years in the 1950s

He can leap tall buildings in a single bound - and in 1978 Superman was back on the cinema screen, played by Christopher Reeve

Christopher Reeve played the superhero - whose Earth name is Clark Kent - for two more films in the 1980s

Our fave hero returned to TV in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, which followed his romance with fellow reporter on the Daily Planet, Lois Lane

TV series Smallville looked at Superman's life as a teenager, with Tom Welling as the man with his underpants on outside his tights

Superman - whose Krypton name is Kal-El - has been in heaps of cartoons, including Cartoon Network's Justice League

And so the story of Superman lives on as he fights for truth, justice and all that stuff

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