wow -- all amazing stuff. Goes to show how much he permeated all these niches of American over such a significant time frame. There's a great essay on the history of Superman licensing here!
On the kids trying to be Superman subject, we had, very unfortunately, a really sad case here in Cleveland a couple of months ago when a 6 year old boy jumped off his bed with a cape that got caught and he died. Really sad story.
So if you have Super-Kids running around, be careful of the capes.
Brad
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