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dc - How does Superman shave?


I've seen several times when Superman is sporting a beard. How does he shave his indestructable hair?


I remember once in Superman the Animated Series that he used his heat vision, but that doesn't make sense to me seeing as he can fly through a star and not get burned.


Also related, how does he go from Super Mullet to short hair? IE, how does he cut his hair?


Superman with Beard Superman Shaving in Animated Series enter image description here



Answer



In the Golden Age of comics, Superman's hair didn't grow on Earth. There was even an entire issue dedicated to this fact at one point - Clark Kent was being tailed by a reporter/photographer for a rival company. She was one of the company's sleaze artists - always digging up gossip.


Her hired investigator kept taking photos of Clark, and she measured his hair in all of them. She found that his hair never grew by so much as a centimeter and jumped to the obvious conclusion: That it was a wig. She then got a photo of him in his apartment - completely bald. She tried to 'out' him on national TV by pulling off his wig, and got her comeuppance when it was revealed that it was his actual hair. He tweaked her nose by telling all their viewers that he'd explain everything...that night, on the Planet's news cast (I think that at the time, he was working for the Daily Planet's TV section - it was the golden age, and they had one).


On the news cast he revealed that he'd been wearing a cue ball wig to set Lex Luthor up for a police sting or something. The issue ended with the reporter swearing to figure out why his hair never grew.



I believe this went away by the time of the 80s or 90s, and has yet to come back. At one point in canon, however, Superman couldn't grow hair at all, and an entire story (which seemed likely to produce a new, lame supervillainess) was based around it.


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