We knocked out Dynomutt last, so how could I not talk about a character who was created by Superman creator himself, Jerry Siegel? Yep! For this #SupermanAnalogue, we're talking about the Golden Age Robotman! 
Robert Crane was a scientist who crafted a robot body that could preserve a human brain from a dying body. We all know where this is going. Thieves break in, kill him, and his assistant puts his brain in the robot body. And of course his first mission was avenging his own death.
As you'd expect, Robotman had incredible strength and durability. On top of that, he had extending arms, much like Dynomutt. Perfectly good powers for a lower powered aspiring Superman.
Shockingly, he's not directly connected with the Robotman of the Doom Patrol, but that's more of the Earth 1/Earth 2 treatment of the Silver/Golden age, much as what happened with the Flash.
During Roy Thomas's Golden Age love letter of tenure as DC writer, we of course saw some Bronze Age appearances.
But I mostly know him as one of the corrupted heroes of James Robinson's "Golden Age" series (where Dyna-Man appeared). There, during the 50s, he had become disconnected from his humanity and easily swayed by a fascist plot to infiltrate America.
Anyway, Robotman was never one I knew that much about, but being a creation of Jerry Siegel always stood out to me.
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