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** [http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/superpowers-that-time-forgot/ There's plenty more examples from the comics.]
** The basic assumption was that, for any ability a normal man might have, Superman could do it or learn to do it much better. If a man can blow out a candle, then Superman can blow out a forest fire (never mind that his lungs aren't that big). The problem lay in that the writers didn't consider how ventriloquism or hypnotism really work, so Superman was shown ''literally'' throwing his voice, or hypnotizing people almost effortlessly.
** The time travel ability is a logical extension of the fact that they'd already established he could fly faster than light; the real question is how he ever broke the light barrier ''without'' time traveling. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100529050012/http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3v.html#causality See here for details.]
** To sum it up, Superman only has one super power: the ability to pull any super power he wants out of his Super-ass.
** This didn't end with the Silver Age by the way. The modern Superman has been shown to use the psychic martial art of Torquasm-Vo which in one instance allowed him to ''alter reality''.
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