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Mead posted...

I wanna who the first Superman writer was that was like

This guy is pretty much indestructible, hes super strong, he can fly, is super fast, can see through walls, Im gonna make he so he can shoot freaking heat lasers out of his eyes to level the playing field

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman.

Actually in the original stories Superman wasn't nearly as powerful as he is today. He couldn't even fly in the original stories. He could just "leap tall buildings in a single bound." The original catchphrase was "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap buildings in a single bound."

It was later writers that kept giving Superman more and more powers until he eventually became a deus ex machina. By the 1970s he could move entire planets, but in the original 1940s stories he was barely more powerful than a locomotive (i.e. a train).