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Superman:Celebrating 75 Years of truth,justice & the American way in the Man of Steel's birth city
Cleveland.com ^ | 14/Apr/2013 | Michael Sangiacomo

Posted on 04/14/2013 5:53:09 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave

Seventy-five years ago someone walking up to a newsstand in Cleveland might have seen something new -- a gaudy, yellow-covered comic book with a man dressed in a circus outfit lifting a car. The magazine bore the equally gaudy title of "Action Comics."

A perfect copy of that 10-cent comic recently sold for $1.2 million, but at the time just seeing that book on display would have meant more than money to the two young Glenville men who created the character.

Superman, the character Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created five years earlier while still in high school, had finally arrived. Comics would never be the same, and soon Superman would be among the most recognized characters in the world. From the steamy jungles of Brazil to the icy wastelands of Siberia, it's pretty hard to find someplace where people have not heard of him.

Yet, the superhero who spawned numerous television series and five films, including a movie due out in June, has never been fully embraced by his city of his birth. And while it's pretty hard to find a place where people have not heard of him, few know the idea came from Cleveland.

Superman rose from humble beginnings. The legend, as told by Siegel himself, says that one hot summer night in the early 1930s, the teen tossed and turned, unable to sleep in his home at 10622 Kimberley Ave., in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland.

He stared out his bedroom window at a giant moon, his head spinning with the tales of science fiction he loved to read. He wished he could fly.

He jumped out of bed and hastily wrote down his ideas for a man who could not exactly fly, but was so mighty that he could leap hundreds of feet into the air. He would have the strength of Hercules and the invulnerability of Achilles and would be the hero of the dispossessed and downtrodden, like the people of Depression-era Cleveland.

The character would be more than a man, he would be a superman. < snip >


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To: who knows what evil?

I read all of those as a kid in the late 60s from my grandmother’s collection.


21 posted on 04/14/2013 7:40:06 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Pontiac
I never knew that Superman was a Cleveland native.

Only the comic book character, not the real one.. < /poor humor >

22 posted on 04/14/2013 9:10:04 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
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To: NKP_Vet
“Terry and the Pirates” was my favorite comic strip. Followed closely by “Steve Canyon”.

Milton Caniff

he did both.....

of course Superman was not a comic strip...rather a comic book.

23 posted on 04/14/2013 9:16:06 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

Obama's vision of Superman.

24 posted on 04/14/2013 9:25:03 AM PDT by N-R-T (aka NewRome Tacitus)
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To: Las Vegas Dave

A message from General Zod to Kal-El and planet Earth has just been revealed at the upcoming ‘Man of Steel’ movie’s website...probably a precursor to a new trailer.


25 posted on 04/14/2013 6:38:21 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?
Superman was modeled after the pulp hero, Doc Savage, who had seventy novels under his belt BEFORE Action Comics #1 was published. 'Man of Bronze', 'Man of Steel'...Clark Savage, Clark Kent...Doc Savage had his 'Fortress of Solitude' YEARS before anyone else made off with the idea.

Both billed as "The Man of Tomorrow"

26 posted on 04/14/2013 6:46:04 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: knarf
If you have a clean copy of this comic in your attic, you are rich.
27 posted on 04/14/2013 7:29:10 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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