ABSTRACT
Superman stories are being told in Action Comics and Superman — monthly comic book titles that have been his home since the late 1930s — and he remains a powerful and lucrative presence in film, appearing in Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, which respectively earned $668 million and over $870 million at the global box office. True to the form of Superman's imaginary universe, people can perhaps consider the author's own view of the character as a glimpse of an alternate Earth, mostly hidden from them on a different vibrational plane: strange and unsettlingly different but entirely possible. Although superhero continuity and Superman's particularly prismatic narrative trajectory would benefit from more scrutiny, there are some distinguished exceptions to this rule. Eco imposes an ideological agenda onto this feature of storytelling, one that probably reveals more about his own political preoccupations than it does the intent of Superman comics.
