Superman of 2956

A costumed hero, clad in a costume identical to Superman's, who enjoyed a brief but colorful career as a crime-fighter in the thirtieth century A.D. with the aid of a variety of special scientific gadgets—including "concealed jet units for flight" and "a concealed degravitator to make heavy things light"—that enabled him to simulate, albeit somewhat imperfectly, some of Superman's mighty super-powers. The Superman of 2956, also known as the "new Superman," was, in reality, Craig King, a mild-mannered telenews reporter for the Daily Solar System. King assumed the role of the thirtieth-century Superman at the behest of a delegation of leading scientists, who provided him with his special super-power apparatus in the hope that he might be able to bring to a halt the mysterious scientific thefts that had been plaguing his era's city of Metropolis.

Failing in his initial attempts to apprehend the criminals, the Superman of 2956 summoned the real Superman to thirtieth-century Metropolis to help him, and, once the criminals had been apprehended, retired from crime-fighting, relieved that he would "never again have to imitate the man who can't be imitated—Superman!"

(Act No. 215, Apr 1956: "The Superman of Tomorrow")