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It was Julie Swartz who started pushing the heavy sci-fi elements, during his tenure as editor. The whole vision of Superman as a "stranger in a strange land".

As if a lifetime on Earth, raised among humans, with human parents, would not have buffed away most of his Krytonian "edges". When the "Great Rao!" nonsense started, after my time as a regular reader, I took deep offense on behalf of Ma and Pa Kent.

He wrote Kal-El!

It was the first time I had been told he didn’t think of Clark as real.