James Gunn’s pointedly bright, colorful, canine-forward new movie, “Superman,” is the second launch in a dozen years of a new shared cinematic universe wherein the superhero in chief is gradually — or ...

Kryptonite was first introduced in a Superman radio serial episode in 1943. In 2004, workers at a drill site in Serbia’s Jadar Valley extracted a white, earthy silicate material unlike any previously ...

Back in 2006, superhero movies weren’t nearly as popular as they are today. Sure, the Sam Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy was a smashing success, but it’s safe to say that other comic book characters weren’t ...