CLEVELAND, Ohio — Given the hype surrounding director James Gunn’s new “Superman” movie blockbuster, it’s easy to forget the Man of Steel’s humble origins in Depression-era Cleveland. Before he was “Truth, Justice and the American Way” — and a global media property worth billions of dollars — Superman was just a wild idea bouncing around the minds of two shy teenagers from Cleveland — kids who walked the same Glenville High School halls tread by thousands of everyday Clevelanders.
That’s where it started: a city knocked sideways by the Great Depression; two Jewish kids dreaming of something larger than their world could offer, and a yearning to rewrite the rules of power and justice.
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