The house in Cleveland, Ohio where Jerry Siegel lived when he was dreaming up the Man of Steel back in the 1930s has fallen into disrepair and is in danger of being torn down. A bunch of comic book professionals have started up the Siegel and Shuster Society as a charitable organization aimed at raising money to save the historic shrine. You can read all about it here and you can see some of the items being auctioned to raise money on eBay here.
It looks like the first week's items will bring in at least somewhere round $20,000, just based on the current bids (with about 8 hours to go). There are 4 weeks of auctions planned, so all things being equal (and assuming that it's not front-loaded), that one wave of fund-raising could account for $70,000 to $100,000 right there. It's pretty impressive to see something like this, although any of the pieces that I'd be interested in bidding on are already out of my price range (which is a good thing, from a charitable point-of-view). Maybe somebody who knows and loves me will buy me a T-shirt, though (it's for a good cause, and would make a great Christmas gift!)
[Update: By the time the smoke cleared, Week 1's items actually pushed over the $30,000 mark! Wow!]
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