If Reign was a repudiation of a philosophical influence by making it a villain, why would they make Superman the hero proper in Action Comics #1 published in 1938? After Hitler was more clearly problematic to Americans? Yet this common narrative seems inherently flawed. Their 1933 Superman allegedly a repudiation of the adoption of Nietzsche's Übermensch, casting it as a villain instead of the over-man savior. The influence of Nietzsche on current events and Siegel and Shuster's Jewish heritage often get conflated by commentators as directly causal. It was a lightly-illustrated short-story featuring the titular character as a telepathic villain. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were born in 1914, met in 1931, and in 1933 produced their first published work using the name Superman in The Reign of the Superman.
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