Back around the time I was born (yeah, way back there), science fiction great Larry Niven penned this amusing article about Superman.

He got some of the bits wrong, or maybe it hadn’t been established at that point that Superman’s abilities started manifesting slowly around puberty. I’m sure that the superpowers he posits for the Man of Steel’s sperm could be entirely dismantled by any real fan with a few sentences as well, though as I’m not one of them, I’m not sure how. Regardless, the article should have any casual Superman fan rolling on the floor with laughter… though trufans tend to be just a wee bit too serious and argumentative about such things to see the amusement factor. 🙂

(As it turns out, it hadn’t been established at that point. The Superman from “the Silver Age of Comics,” which ended about the time that that article was penned, did have his abilities before puberty; that was reimagined later, probably in response to the article itself.)