Birthplace of Superman - Joe Schuster's House.

Birthplace of Superman - Joe Schuster's House

Cleveland, Ohio

Joe Schuster was best friends with neighborhood buddy and high school classmate Jerry Siegel. When Jerry concocted the idea of Superman in 1932, it was Joe who drew him. The apartment house where the Schuster family lived is now a vacant lot, but the fence around it has been hung with 2x3-foot metal panels that reproduce the cover and first 13 pages of Action Comics #1, the first Superman story, which was published in 1938.

In 2011 a drunk driver crashed into the fence, damaging some of the pages. The survivors were rehung, but the missing panels make the story a little incoherent.

Birthplace of Superman - Joe Schuster's House

Address:: Amor Ave., Cleveland, OH
Directions:: Northeast edge of the city, and nine blocks south of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel's house. From Hwy 283/St. Clair Ave. turn south onto Parkwood Drive. Drive south 12 blocks. The display will be on the right, at the corner of Amor Ave. and Parkwood Drive.

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April 10, 2013