Wells and the Star That Became a Planet
Wells was walking past 1 Yonge Street, the old Toronto Star building, when the notice caught his eye.
The tower was being spared a little longer, maybe reborn as a hotel instead of vanishing into another construction pit. For most people passing by, it was just another Toronto redevelopment sign. For Wells, it hit different.
The Star was not just a newspaper. It was part of the city’s myth machine.
Joe Shuster, the Toronto-born co-creator of Superman, had once worked as a newsboy for the Toronto Daily Star. That memory followed him into the earliest Superman comics, where Clark Kent first worked for a paper called the Daily Star before it later became the Daily Planet. Even the old Toronto Star Building at 80 King Street West is remembered as one of the inspirations behind the look and idea of the Daily Planet building.
Wells looked up at the glass, the concrete, the changing skyline.
Toronto had given the world part of Superman’s story. Not all of it. But enough. A spark. A name. A city. A young artist with ink on his hands and impossible strength in his imagination.
And now Wells stood there in black and gold, Canadian, broad-shouldered, thinking about what symbols survive.
Buildings change. Papers move. Cities rebuild.
But the idea stays.
A man can still stand for something.
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