SUPERMAN was murdered! That’s the secret Jack Larson, who played cub reporter Jimmy Olsen on the hit 1950s TV show The Adventures of Superman, took to his grave.
Jack — who died at age 87 on Sept. 17 at his Brentwood, Calif., home — believed George Reeves, who portrayed the iconic comic-book hero, was murdered on June 16, 1959. However, authorities concluded TV’s Man of Steel committed suicide.
The actor was so convinced his friend had been murdered by a hit man that he and Noel Neill, now 94, who played Superman’s girlfriend Lois Lane until the show ended in 1958, took part in a mid-1990s bid to reopen the controversial case!
George was found naked in his bedroom, dead of a single gunshot wound. Cops quickly declared he took…