# Cleveland celebrates Superman!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 12, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506 "2013-04-12T14:44:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506/1 "2013-04-12T14:44:34Z")

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The 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel’s first appearance in _Action Comics_ will be on April 18.

[http://clecityhall.com/2013/04/10/help-celebrate-supermans-75th-anniversary-supercle/](http://clecityhall.com/2013/04/10/help-celebrate-supermans-75th-anniversary-supercle/)  
[http://clecityhall.com/2013/04/11/supercle/](http://clecityhall.com/2013/04/11/supercle/)

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506/2 "2013-04-12T15:07:54Z")

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Has Toronto had a similar celebration?

One of Superman’s creators, Jerry Siegel, was from Cleveland. But his co-creator, Joe Shuster, was from Toronto.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506/3 "2018-08-31T02:20:54Z")

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Bumped.

Well worth a visit to the Cleveland Public Library: [Superman: From Cleveland to Krypton – An Exhibit – Cleveland Public Library](https://cpl.org/superman/)

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506/4 "2018-08-31T10:24:41Z")

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I wish my mother was still alive. She dated Jerry Siegel for a while in high school.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506/5 "2018-08-31T21:05:13Z")

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The CPL has had a Superman thing going for about a year now.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cleveland-celebrates-superman/655506/6 "2018-08-31T21:22:34Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> I wish my mother was still alive. She dated Jerry Siegel for a while in high school.

I was going to ask how old you were. Then I realized my mother would have been too old for him. Now I’m depressed at how old I am.