Superman fans have helped save the US house where the action hero was created by raising $100,000 (£56,000) in an online auction.
Memorabilia and a walk-on role in the hit TV show Heroes was sold as part of the month-long sale to repair the dilapidated house in Cleveland, Ohio.
The building was where writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster created the character more than 70 years ago.
Organiser Brad Meltzer called the sale a "humbling spectacular project".
‘Ordinary people’
Novelist Meltzer, who discovered the deteriorating house while researching a novel, said the sale "showed just how much people care about this character and why today Superman still matters".
He added: "We’re all Clark Kent. We all know what it is like to be boring and ordinary and we all want to be able to rip open our shirt and do something beyond ourselves. 
The idea that Superman’s house was just rotting away struck everyone as inherently wrong 
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