in real life after the six-hundredth-odd time somebody jumped off a building so they could get a selfie with him, Superman would start cooking us with heat vision from orbit just to watch us run around
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Replying to @chaosprime
its really a good thing he was raised on a farm in Kansas. can you imagine if he had been raised in an East Coast city?
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
He's an urban orphan from Cleveland, though. Why do you think it's "leap tall buildings in a single bound", not "leap grain elevators in a single bound"?
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Replying to @thirdmouse @chaosprime
Joe and Jerry were from Cleveland. Kal-El not so much.
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
See Action Comics #1 (1938) and Superman #1 (1939). He's a city boy in all the good Superman comics.
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Replying to @thirdmouse @chaosprime
the origin as it appears in Action Comics #1 is very compressed and makes no mention of either Smallville or Clevelandpic.twitter.com/J1uJ1GXlM3
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afaik the Smallville aspect of the character was developed beginning in the 1950s. the "modern" incarnation of the character is probably best represented by the John Byrne "Man of Steel" limited series from 1986. Very Kansas.
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