When Adventures of Superman, the first TV show about the superhero, wrapped production in 1957 after six seasons, series star ...

George Reeves' death was ruled a suicide in 1959, but the end of his life remains controversial due to a lack of evidence ...

Reeves played the superhero in a movie called Superman and the Mole Men, which was made to introduce a TV series that aired the following year, The Adventures of Superman. The series ran from ...

But even more importantly, The Adventures of Superman was marketed ... While this may have been the final act for George Reeves’ Superman, it was the first act in what would become one of ...

Superman (1950). George Reeves followed in Superman & the Mole Men (1951) and then was the man of steel in The Adventures of Superman, which ran on TV for seven seasons, starting in 1952.

Actor George Reeves, 45, known to children the world over as television’s Superman, killed himself with a bullet through the head early yesterday in his Benedict Canyon home, police reported.

Coates was known for starring in the first Superman feature film ... Coates made just $350 an episode starring opposite George Reeves, who played the Man of Steel. Courtesy Everett Collection ...

Coates starred as Lois Lane in the “Adventures of Superman” when the series first aired in 1952, only to leave after one season. She initially played Lois opposite George Reeves as Clark Kent/ ...

By December of 1957, word reached the media that George Reeves’ contract for Adventures of Superman had come to an end and that the show itself was drawing to a close.