'I mean, why aren't we doing more of it? Think of the tourism potential.' A Superman exhibit at the Cleveland Public Library For one of Cleveland's most important native sons, there's surprisingly little fanfare. We're talking about Superman, of course, born here in 1938 out of the minds of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Sure, there's the second-floor exhibit, with Siegel's desk and a few posters, at the Cleveland Public Library
For one of Cleveland's most important native sons, there's surprisingly little fanfare.
All the more reason, some say, to create a bigger, more fitting homage to one of the largest, bestselling superheroes in history right here in Cleveland.
A lifelong admirer of comics, Zullo's origin of interest in a Superman festival began in 2016, when he helped Kent State professor Vera Camden orchestrate a Wonder Woman Symposium during the Hillary Clinton-elect era of American politics. As Zullo suggests, Cleveland has always seemed to botch any attempt at a world class homage to Siegel, Shuster and their brainchild.In 1988, after Superman's 50th anniversary conference, a company called Neverending Battle Inc. vowed to erect a 40-foot statue of the Man of Steel, along with a museum, somewhere near the lakefront. By year's end, due to gross mismanagement, Neverending was $200,000 in debt. They disbanded. Nothing was built.
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