Efforts to save the house where Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created their iconic character received a heroic -- nay, superheroic -- response from fans, with more than $100,000 raised in a month-long charity auction that ended Tuesday.
Comics writer and novelist Brad Meltzer, who organized the auction, told Reuters, "This was easily the most humbling spectacular project I've ever been part of, and showed just how much people care about this character and why today Superman still matters."
The $101,744 final tally was more than twice the goal set for the auction, which included original Superman-related artwork and a role in the television series "Heroes," among other items. Now, instead of simply fixing up the exterior of the Cleveland, Ohio, home where the duo first created the Man of Steel, the interior of the home will also be repaired.
Meltzer first discovered the house and its state of disrepair while researching his latest novel, "Book of Lies." The house was the childhood home of Siegel, and in return for repairing the building, its current owners have agreed to let the Siegel and Shuster Society buy the home when it eventually goes up for sale.
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