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Kansas man campaigning to have town renamed 'Smallville'
Comic book artist points out the similarities between his town and Superman's fictional Earthly home
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A comic book artist from Kansas is leading a campaign to have his hometown legally renamed 'Smallville', the Earthly hometown of Superman.
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Christopher Wietrick of Hutchinson, Kansas, is arguing that his town is already uncannily similar to the fictional town, which is thought to have first been placed in Kansas in the 1978 film 'Superman'.
To support his case, Wietrick has plumbed the original source material for evidence, assisted by fellow campaigners and residents of the town Ben Eisiminger and KC McNeely.
They cite Smallville's population of 45,000, compared to Hutchinson's 42,000, and that it sits a similar three hour drive away from a major city, in Smallville's case the fictional city Metropolis, and in Hutchinson's case, Kansas City.
Wietrick also uses the fact that there is already a Superman costume proudly on display in the town's museum, and there are both 'Clark' and 'Kent' roads in the town.
In the comics, Clark Kent grew up on a farm on Hickory Lane just outside Smallville, while Hutchinson has a Hickory Way also in a rural area just outside town.
Strange, but perhaps less compelling, is that the town centre vaguely resembles the shape of the Superman logo on a map.
“Smallville is best known for its meteor showers,” he adds. “Kinda odd how, there was a meteor shower recently and, citizens of Hutchinson went to the Kansas Cosmosphere to watch them. Why so... curious??
“Hutchinson has one of the world's largest displays of 'stuff from space', including rocks from space. Why is this town so obsessed with things from space and stuff buried in the ground?”
He will be pleading the evidence for his case in a comic book, proceeds from which will go to the Boys and Girls club of Hutchinson.
Wietrick has also set up a Facebook group to garner support for his cause in the hope that DC Comics and Warner Bros., who own the Superman intellectual property, may grant the rights to do so.
