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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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
The particular city was not identified until later. It was briefly Cleveland (though that was changed in reprints) but quickly got revised to Metropolis.
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But that's pre-Crisis Superman, guys!
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Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop Retweeted Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop
I know. There have been various reboots and other, uh, things we don't speak about since then, but for the most part the John Byrne post-crisis version has become nearly canonical.https://twitter.com/danlistensto/status/1059526164732170243 …
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