“The 99” are Muslim comic book superheroes and the creation of an American-educated artist, Naif al-Mutawa. Mutawa’s characters battle evil, and each character represents one of the 99 qualities that Muslims attribute to God. Read a Jan. 22, 2006, New York Times story about “The 99” at Adherents.com and an Oct. 5, 2011, CNN story about resistance to the comic book […]

Read a Sept. 7, 2012, Religion News Service story about DC Comics introducing a new Muslim superhero.

A Jan. 2, 2013, New York Times story previewed the conference at the Center for Jewish History and explored religious aspects of the most famous superhero.

Read a Feb. 1, 2013, Smart Set column about a conference at the Center for Jewish History that celebrated the Man of Steel’s 75th birthday — and focused on his Jewish roots.

Read an article in the February 2013 edition of Smithsonian magazine.

Read an April 7, 2013, column in the Huffington Post by S. Brent Plate, a visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.

Read this New Republic article published April 18, 2013, to mark the Man of Steel’s 75 years.

Read a Q-and-A in the April 28, 2013, edition of Our Sunday Visitor with Franciscan University of Steubenville philosophy professor Jonathan Sanford, co-editor of Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry.

Read a May 3, 2013, story at Slate about emerging technologies that could give people enhanced abilities. It asks: “If humans become superhuman, will we turn out to be superheroes — or supervillains?”