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Image courtesy Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards, Baltimore.

Auctions benefiting Ohio ‘birthplace’ of Superman exceed their goal

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Image courtesy Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards, Baltimore.
Image courtesy Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards, Baltimore.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Online auctions benefiting Superman’s Cleveland birthplace have been more powerful than a locomotive.

The sales on eBay are only half done and have already surpassed their goal of raising $50,000 to fix up the boyhood home of Jerry Siegel. It’s where he and Joe Shuster came up with the Man of Steel during the 1930s.

When the second of four auctions of original art and other items wrapped up on Tuesday, Sept. 16, more than $53,000 had been raised. The auctions continue through Sept. 30.

The proceeds will be used to replace the roof and redo the exterior on the former Siegel family home on Cleveland’s east side. Organizers say money beyond the original goal will be set aside for repairs inside and for future work.
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Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com

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