{"id":33759,"date":"2023-04-20T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=33759"},"modified":"2023-04-20T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T01:26:01","slug":"celebrating-supermans-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/20\/celebrating-supermans-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Superman’s creators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irene and I drove to Ohio this week to take in the exhibition The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England<\/em><\/a> at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and while I enjoyed that part of our trip, what I was looking forward to the most was our visit to the neighborhood where Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster met in 1930 when they were on the staff of the Glenville High School student newspaper.<\/p>\n

And so, 85 years and one day after Action Comics<\/em> #1 went on sale, introducing the world to the Man of Steel, an event without which I would not have had my life, we made a pilgrimage to two of the spots where it all began. <\/p>\n

While Joe Shuster’s apartment building no longer exists, Jerry Siegel’s boyhood home still stands. So we started with a visit to 10622 Kimberly Avenue, which is a private residence. It’s obvious, from both the whimsical window dressing and the decorations surrounding the lot, that the current owners are well aware of the property’s importance.<\/p>\n

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I have no idea how many others make the journey to pay their respects, but we were the only ones gawking for the 15 of so minutes we were there.<\/p>\n

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The street signs at the corner of Kimberly and Parkwood also read Jerry Siegel Lane and Lois Lane.<\/p>\n

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We then drove nine blocks away to the vacant lot where the apartment building Joe Shuster lived in once stood, which is now a vacant lot. If you’d also like to visit this location, plug “Parkwood Drive and Amor Avenue” into your GPS.<\/p>\n

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The fence which surrounds that lot is decorated with the cover to Action Comics<\/em> #1 as well as the entirety of the first Superman story. Here I am kneeling by the beginning of that display.<\/p>\n

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And the street sign at this location is also given an honorary naming.<\/p>\n

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As Irene and I drove off, I thought … without Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and what they created, we’d never have found each other.<\/p>\n

Thanks for everything! I wish the world had treated you better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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