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I don’t know how many of you have been following this story, but for those of you who haven’t:

The Cleveland home of Joe Schuster, the creator of Superman (along with Jerry Siegel, who held a lot of the original art duties), has been crumbling into disrepair. Lord knows (or maybe just people who read the exhaustively researched Men of Tomorrow) that for being guys who created one of the cornerstones of our national culture, Siegel and Schuster got the shaft repeatedly throughout their entire lives. They spent most of it in near-poverty for one thing, and were hardly ever given sufficient credit for their creation by the higher-ups at DC. In fact, their names weren’t even going to be in the credits of the original Superman: The Movie (which was corrected by a lawsuit that occurred mere months before the release of the film).

And so too, even in death, the two men didn’t get the recognition that they so clearly deserved, and the house where Superman was invented very nearly fell into oblivion (I mean, some people still live there, but we’re talking comic books here. There has to be some hyperbole).

But wait! What’s that? It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an auction organized by novelist Brad Meltzer, author of The Book of Lies and The Millionaires, that raised just over $100,000 to preserve the house where two young men created the character.

"The house where Google was created is saved. The farm where Hewlett-Packard was founded is preserved. We protected the house where Dr. Seuss lived, where Elvis lived,” Meltzer pointed out . “So the idea that Superman's house was just rotting away struck everyone as inherently wrong."

He’s right. That really is pretty silly.

Among the things up for auction were character naming rights in Meltzer’s next book and a walk on role in Heroes.

I don’t know about anyone else, but this just makes me feel good to be alive. I mean, in any other walk of creative life is there ever such an outpouring of enthusiasm for a character, a work, or the people involved in creating it? Let’s face it: more “respectable” mediums could never pull something like this off.

So, if you’re a fanboy, take the rest of the day off, raise a glass of the cheapest beer you could get your hands on, and think about how hot it would be if Princess Leia and Agent Scully had been room-mates in college (inspired by an actual conversation I had once).

If you’re not, then maybe it’s time to seriously reexamine your priorities in life.

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