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The name adopted by a lifelike android - created by Superman in
his own image but rejected by the Man of Steel soon afterward because
of its serious imperfections - who, bitterly resentful over
having been discarded, masterminds an elaborate scheme to wreak
vengeance on Superman and end his super-hero career by tricking Clark
Kent into believing that Adam Newman is the only real Superman and
that all his own recollections of an action-filled life as Superman
have been only symptoms of a pathetic delusion. Incredibly, the plot
succeeds - with Clark Kent actually convinced that he is only a
mild-mannered reporter and that his entire life as Superman has been
nothing by an insane hallucination - until finally Adam Newman,
mortally wounded while battling a runaway nuclear pile, confesses the
details of his scheme to a startled Clark Kent so that, even though
the android Superman must perish, the real Superman will be able to
save Metropolis from disaster.
See Superman #174, January 1965
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Text on this page taken from The Great Superman Book © 1978
by Michael L. Fleisher.
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