Superman Gets Robbed By Variety Magazine

[TELLE]

At one point Superman was officially recognized as the 3 most famous fictional characters along with Tarzan and Mickey Mouse. That was BEFORE the 1st Superman movie.

I remember that Harlan Ellison liked to mention this factoid but I never saw the actual source of this info.

[Super Monkey]

At one point Superman was officially recognized as the 3 most famous fictional characters along with Tarzan and Mickey Mouse. That was BEFORE the 1st Superman movie.

I remember that Harlan Ellison liked to mention this factoid but I never saw the actual source of this info.

I did, this was way back, I remember when it was 1st mention, it made the news, during a second survey, in the 80's. Mickey and Superman made the top ten, the rest were real people.

[TELLE]

But I thought it was a list of fictional characters?

Robin Hood was in there, I recall.

[llozymandias]

Robin Hood was loosely based on 1 to 3 real people.  Variety Magazine (like Time Magazine) has nothing but contempt for anything related to Superman.  Tell most people about Variety's list (of icons from the past century) not including Superman's "S" emblem, they might ask what kind of magazine Variety is.  Or where it's from.  Or they might admit to having never heard of Variety Magazine. :twisted:  :lol:

[TELLE]

I know Jerry Siegel was a reader (and correspondent).

[RedSunOfKrypton]

Oh, now that you reminded me, I looked for Siegel and Shuster and they got no mention either.