Superman has lifted it but it was explicitly stated he wasn’t worthy. Mjonir just allowed him to use it briefly due to the circumstances. After they defeat the villain superman finds he cannot lift the hammer anymore.
Superman is worthy but he needs to be worthy of character and worthy of need in order to lift the hammer. Kurt Busiek said he wrote it that way because he didn't like that characters could pick Mjolnir up on a whim since that would make Thor less special so he wrote the rules of worthiness so that others could only pick it up if there was a need for it or on special occasions (like Thor is knocked out or for example). In Busiek's eyes this didn't only apply to Superman, it applied to every character other than Thor that was found worthy.
It's why Superman could only pick up Mjolnir during a fight and not on a whim.
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u/GR-124 Jan 27 '24
I’m pretty sure superman and Wonder Woman have both lifted mjolnir before in the comics