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April 2, 2025
You’ve probably heard that Superman of Metropolis is originally from the planet Krypton by way of Smallville. But in point of fact, the Man of Steel—like Drew Carey, the gas mask, and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony—comes from Cleveland.
Writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster met as teenagers at Glenville High School on the Ohio city’s East Side, began developing their muscle-bound vigilante in self-published projects starting in 1933, and, 5 years later, landed Superman a starring role in comic books published by what would become DC Comics.
Having since gone on to appear in movies, cartoons, TV shows, and a pile of merch so high even you-know-who couldn’t leap it in a single bound, Superman is returning to his roots in his latest film outing.
Scheduled for release on July 11, the new Superman movie, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as the title character and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, used Cleveland as a stand-in for Metropolis for a 6-week on-location shoot during the summer of 2024.
We’ll get to some of the key locations you’ll see onscreen, but first here are some other super sites in Cleveland where fans can pay homage to Siegel, Shuster, and their work.
