Jewish parallels: The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on a lecture at Case Western Reserve University about the similarities between comic-book superheroes and Jews:

"There have always been strong Jewish undercurrents in comic books. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish boys from Cleveland, wrote a story about parents who feared their child would be killed. In order to save him, they placed him in a vessel and sent him off, hoping that a kind person would rescue him. That is the story of Superman, but it is actually the story of Moses."