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t was an old piece of information given in Julie Schwartz's "Answer Man" letter columns that Superman's birthday was on February 29th - meaning that Superman only had a birthday once every four years! Apparently, this is Superman's equivalent birthday according to the earth calendar; Krypton's calendar was slightly different, with eighteen Kryptonian years for every twenty-five years on Earth. Presumably, Superman also has a Kryptonian date for his birth that he celebrates, just as Jewish children have a birthday in the Hebrew calendar (where one's bar mitzvah is celebrated) and a birthday in the Western calendar.
This date of February 29th was not always his birthday, however. During the Golden Age, Superman's birth on Kryptonopolis was in October, according to ACTION COMICS #149 (1950).
What is even more interesting is the idea that Superman and Clark Kent have different birthdays!
SUPERMAN #249 (1972) by Cary Bates (which is incidentally also the first appearance of Terra-Man), has Superman succumbing to emotional problems that Kryptonians get on their sixth birthday. This date cannot be correct, however, as that would mean that Superman is then celebrating his 24th Birthday instead of the traditional 29 years of age! Assuming Bates made an error here, if he was 29 through most of his hero years, come this 1972 issue, it must mean he is 32, or having celebrated eight birthdays.
Superman gets another birthday in Alan Moore's SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11 (1985) which means that around the time of the Reboot, Superman was around 36 earth years old, and this was his ninth birthday. This annual also brings to mind one of the funniest questions of Earth-1: what DO you buy for Superman, anyway? Not since Bouncing Boy's quest to outdo the other male Legionnaires and search for a present to win the hand of Dream Girl, was there a more brain-rattling gift conudrum!
This slightly revised timeline fits in with the dates we have for Supergirl. Shortly after Kara Zor-El's appearance on earth, she has a birthday party and is stated to be "sixteen." If five years passed from the 1960s to the 1970s, that would mean that Supergirl is 21 Earth-years old in Paul Kupperberg's NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL and her death in CRISIS, which makes her fashoin model and actress career brief but entirely plausible.
Interestingly, Clark Kent has a different birthday than Superman: According to SUPERMAN #263 (1973), Kent's birthday is June 18th. This was stated as being the date that Superman arrived on Earth, his "Earthday." In ACTION COMICS #241 (1958) it is learned that Superman celebrates the date of his coming to earth as well as his "true" birthday (because apparently every four years doesn't quite cut it). The date at the beginning of #241 is given as June 10, 1958, and that Superman's "Earthday" must have several days leeway from here. This is consistent with the June 18th date that was later given.
(Intriguingly, this is also consistent with the anniversary of Superman in the "real" world, where the first issue of ACTION COMICS appeared on the stands in June 1938!)
In Superboy's sixteenth (or really, fourth) birthday, according to Cary Bates's NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY #1 (1980) it was explained that the Kents placed an extra candle on Superboy's birthday cake in honor of a birthday where he almost was aged by aliens, a reminder of the time he lost.
The only place that we get a YEAR of birth for Superman is in the first "Superman of 2965" story, where it was stated that the original Superman was born in 1920, a suspect date considering that would make Superman's considerably older in his 1960s-1970s appearances. This date also lends significant credence to the theory that the "Superman of 2965" future is the future of Earth-2, not Earth-1, as Earth-1 has the Legion and Earth-2 does not, and also no person seen in the 2965 future (Joker, Batman) does not have equivalents on Earth-1. Also, it should be noted that Earth-2 Superman got married and presumably may have children, whereas Earth-1 Superman never did.
50 things to do before i graduate high school?
hockeygirl
not to crazy like legall things and no sex or smoking! i just want fun creative things
Answer 1. start a journal, begin with making a list of things you want to do before you graduate from high school.
2. Go to a thrift store and get $10 of old videos, CDs, or books. Get something you would ordinarily not buy.
3.Go to a concert featuring someone new, someone with an interesting name.
4. Get a penpal in another country or state... I guess it would be email pal or someone on facebook etc
5. Clean out your closet and junk drawers, make a time capsule of things from your life that you want to keep, but that you can live without.
6. Do a random act of kindness each day and record it in your journal.
7. Try a new
musical instrument, get private lessons if possible, or just rent one and play around with it for a month.
8. Get a how to video and try to follow the steps like how to paint a landscape in an hour, make a birdhouse, put together a flower arrangement.
9. Arrange to volunteer for a couple hours a week at various businesses or charities such as the humane society, 4-H, scouts, the family center, the hospital, local art supply store, a museum, etc.
10. Get a list of banned books and start reading all of them before you go to college. Mark them off as you go.
11. Walk, go a different direction or on a different trail each time.
12. Pretend you are a tourist. Go to all the interesting sights in your city as if you were just visiting
13. Try a new recipe.
14. Give a costume or themed party... maybe a Halloween one or plan a very interesting birthday party.
15. Give a surprise party for a friend or relative.
16. Start learning a new language.
17. Compose a song.
18. write a play, poem, or short story.
19. Read an entire page in the dictionary.
20. Start writing your own dictionary of modern slang.
21. Get a pattern and make your own prom dress, or make something for someone else.
22. Make your own gifts for the whole year... nothing purchased except supplies to make the gifts,
23. Be a kid again, reread your favorite childhood books, go to the water park, run through the sprinklers.
24. Go on a scavenger hunt with your friends.
25. Make a collage of pictures representing yourself and your interests.
26. Design your own house, start with over all floor plan, and then decorate the room, choose paint colors, carpet or flooring, furniture etc. Then landscape the yard. You can do this on computer or make a scrapbook of ideas.
27. Use a baby name book, select at least 10 possible names for your future children. Consider what the names man and what nicknames other kids might make out of them.
28. Get one of those knitting looms and make a hat and scarf set for each of your friends.
29. Get your lifeguard certification.
30. Take mini trips to visit various colleges.
31. Buy five items at a garage sale. Then do something with those items
32. Paint a picture
33. Take a picture, enlarge it to poster size.
34. Check out your local county and state fair. Enter at least one item in each fair.
35. Go through all your old pictures, make a scrapbook from childhood to graduation.
36. Take an old pair of jeans and make something out of them: purse, pieces for a jeans quilt, an apron, a skirt, shorts, etc.
37. Have a yard sale of all your old stuff, ask your parents if they want to get rid of stuff too. Invite a few of your friends over to help you. Use that money for a great party.
38. Make a giant batch of pizzelles or other Christmas cookies to give away or sell.
39. Try to start a new fad, anything from an interesting haircut to using a new ly invented slang word. See how long it takes to catch on .
40. Go to different churches, just to check out different religions.
41. Play music and invent your own dances to go with them.
42. Learn how o make tamales or ravioli from scratch.
43. Wear different colored socks, or clothes which don't match on purpose.
44. Either call or start writing thank you notes to previous teachers or people who helped you along the way.
48. Try a food you have never tried before.
Sorry, Yahoo says my answer is too long, but this should give you a start.
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