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Let ’s face it – when it comes to finding a tyke to espouse , everyfamily would want to opt baby Kal - El ( akaSuperman ) . Not only does he grow up to become humanity ’s greatest hero ( major parenting bragging right ! ) , he ’s also a well - mannered Thomas Kyd who rarely pass his parent any trouble ( outside of a few heat visual sensation - related misadventure ) .
As it turns out , Superman get to be adopted by several dissimilar families in the funny books – including some with very little resemblance to the Kents . Thanks to the outre alternate reality of Elseworlds level , Superman has been raised in the Soviet Union , as a human being on Krypton … and even in the jungle . By Wolf . Yes , really .
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That strange tale , which combined elements from the Superman saga with the Jungle Book , happened inSuperman Annual # 6,which told the tale of “ The Feral Man of Steel . ” In this world , Kal - El ’s ship shore in the jungle where his cries were heard by M’r’r , a she - masher who protected the Kryptonian babe from the Panthera tigris Kahn . Named “ K’l’l ” or “ white tegument , ” the now - feral Kryptonian grows up happily in the jungle ( and even gets averydark tan ) before the sun ’s radioactivity begins imbuing him withhis power .
When British colonists , include the celebrated explorer Richard Francis Burton and his comrade John Ellis obtrude upon the jungle , however , some of their men begin shooting at the animals and incidentally kill K’l’l ’s female parent . Alerted to her end howls , K’l’l vanish to her side and issues a spartan whipping to the men – displaying his high temperature vision and trajectory powers as well . Fleeing with hisadoptive mother ’s stiff , K’l’l regains his own will to live by finally defeating and killing Kahn in fight . He then choose to wear the tiger ’s skin as a sign of his fresh station as Lord of the Wolves – adding to it the S - shaped symbolic representation of the House of El as a hieroglyph .
Seeking to kill the human being responsible for his mother ’s death , K’l’l lead the beast of the jungle to their camp and closely slaughters them all , but is lay off by Burton ’s fresh fellow traveler – the American Lois Lane . draw in to Lois , K’l’l breaks off the attack and even allow Lois to learn him their language . She also gives K’l’l the human name “ Clark ” and inevitably come down in love with him – something that angers the other appendage of the mathematical group – Lex Luthor .
Having acquire a chunk of Kryptonite after stamp out the kin group that found it , Luthor quick discovers it canweaken “ Clark”and decides to use the “ Jungle Man ” as a tool to take over the British Empire . take Clark back to England as a sideshow attractive force , Luthor orders Clark to kill Queen Victoria during one of his performance . When Luthor threaten Lois , however , Clark change state on the baddie , who ’s barely able to hold him back with his Kryptonite - laced sword . Richard Burton go far to aid Clark take down Luthor , however , and the assassination is prevented .
In the aftermath , Clark is knight by Queen Victoria as “ Sir Clark of Kent ” and given lands and wealth . Together with Burton , he conduct expeditions across four continents and ended up spread out the British Empire to the point where England took over one - third of the Earth . Clark and Lois finally tie and had children ( all with his Kryptonian abilities ) ensuring that the British Empire continues to spread over the generations .
A noteworthy twist ending to both the traditional Superman fable and the originalJungle Book , the “ Feral Man of Steel ” uses the plebeian yarn of a man who achieve greatness thanks to being raised in a foreign but healthy environment withnurturing adoptive parent . It ’s a singular tarradiddle that express Superman can thrive under any circumstances as long as he ’s feel by the right people . Even if those multitude turn out to be wolves .
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