10 Most Controversial Superman Comics Of All Time

10. Superman Saves A City By Destroying It - Action Comics #8 + #12 (1939)

Superman can go toe-to-toe with pretty much anyone but that doesn't mean he enjoys it. He understands you can't fix every problem by punching it.

Unfortunately, that's EXACTLY what the writers thought you could do during the 1930s. In the story, Superman in the Slums, the title hero convinces himself that people turn to crime if they were raised in a bad neighbourhood.

Instead of cleaning up the area, he destroys the poorest places he can find to "be rid of its filthy, crime-festering slums". What makes this tale more baffling is this was only a few years after the Great Depression, when millions of Americans were living in poverty.

Four issues later, Superman did pretty much the same thing. In the story, Superman Declares War on Reckless Drivers. Superman... literally does that.

After someone is killed by an oncoming car, Superman breaks into a radio station and vows that every reckless driver will answer to him. He then travels to several used-car lots and crushes all the automobiles. He then finds a car factory and rips open all of the equipment. The employees run for their lives as the whole building collapses. Thanks Supes. The world is saved.