When Jerry Siegel wrote his K-Metal story in 1940, he did not give it a title.  Each page of surviving artwork is merely labeled "Superman" across the top, in pencil.

It wasn't until 1988 that the story was given a name by its discoverer, Mark Waid.  He referred to it simply as "K-Metal".  Alex Ross also wrote an early article using that name for the story, and it appears that "K-Metal" is DC's official title of the tale.  Comic book journalists and contemporaries of the time consistently referred to it as "K-Metal."

Shortly after we began our restoration efforts, I happened to come across and read Gerard Jones' book, Men of Tomorrow. In it, he invents and assigns the name "K-Metal from Krypton" to the story.  This is an anachronistic and non-official title, but at the time I thought it was pretty cool; so we put it all over the website, and in all the articles on the website, and made lots of promotional graphics displaying that title.  If we had not done that and promoted that name, it is very likely that few people would have ever been aware of it or if its use in Men of Tomorrow; let alone even heard of that book.  From this website, the name "K-Metal from Krypton" spread and became the defacto title of the tale; people throughout the world now assuming that's the actual title of the story.

But it isn't and it never was.

When we learned about Gerard Jones' arrest and conviction and the morally abhorrent nature of his crimes; we immediately adopted the following policy with the hope of correcting our error:

1. When we refer to the original 1940 script, story, and artwork created by Jerry Siegel and the Shuster Studio, we will refer to it with DC's official title: "K-Metal"


2. When we refer to this website: our continuing K-Metal restoration efforts, our articles; research; and artwork, and our planned upcoming story arc (of which the original "K-Metal" is but one chapter); we will use the name: "Saga of the K-Metal."