All of this inspired the comic book writer Grant Morrison: Why not create a Black Superman? And so was born Calvin Ellis, a Black Man of Steel brought to life by Morrison and the artist Doug ...

If anything, it seems we’ll be getting more Superman rather than less. And with this reboot, there is room to tackle something we’ve never seen onscreen before. Calvin Ellis, Val-Zod ...

Will we ever see a black Superman? In fact, Kryptonians of color already feature in comics. On an alternate version of Earth, for example, Calvin Ellis is not only Superman, but President of the ...

While it will be the first time that a black Superman will appear on the big screen, it will not be new ground for the DC comic icon. A character called Calvin Ellis was first introduced in 2009 ...

Superdoom radiated an overpowering evil. Even Earth-23's white supremacist Lex Luthor allied himself with Calvin Ellis and ...

Todd Klein/DC Comics As long as the original Superman has had counterparts like Steel and, more recently, Final Crisis’ Calvin Ellis of Earth-23, there have been comics fans who struggled to ...

The first two being Sunshine Superman and Superman of Earth-D. The name "Calvin Ellis" was originally introduced as an alias for Superman in a 1985 story written by Alan Moore." This is a perfect ...

Action Comics #9, which introduced the Calvin Ellis version of Superman and Superdoomsday, is one of the most intelligent and biting commentaries on the history of Superman of all time.