Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

Publication date: 
1969-12
Publication type: 
Non-Fiction
Published: 
Knight, December 1969
Opus No.: 
41
Setting: 
N/A
Summary: 

Can Superman make a baby with Lois Lane, or is he doomed to be the last of his kind? This article discusses the scientific and medical issues involved in copulating with a Kryptonian.

Notes: 

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Entertaining speculation on Superman's sex life on Earth, including a discussion of how to preserve the Kryptonian race. Often quoted, but almost never illustrated, thanks to DC Comics' legal department.

Reprints: 

Reprints Notes Ad Astra, issue three (British newszine); graphic underground, dramatized: More Existentialist Fun Comics; anthology, Superheroes, edited by Michael Parry, London: Sphere 1978; Heyne Science Fiction Magazin 12; Alien Sex, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dutton, paper, Roc/Penguin 1990; Penthouse Comix Vol 1, No. 5, January 1995; Gothic APA 15, Spring (March) 1999; The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman, ed. Glenn Yeffeth, Benbella Books, May 1, 2006; Reprinted at larryniven.org; All the Myriad Ways; N-Space; Best of Larry Niven, The