Well into the run of TV’s Smallville, rumor had it that a surprisingly large percentage of its audience had absolutely no idea that the character played by Tom Welling, a boy named Clark Kent who was actually an alien named Kal-El from the Planet Krypton, was supposed to be the young Superman.
One would think that these viewers had never seen a comic book before. Or it could be that they had and were confused by the many ways in which this incarnation of the Man Of Steel differed from his four-color incarnation.
