The building's original features appear to be based upon the Old Toronto Star Building, where Superman co-creator Joe Shuster was a newsboy when the Toronto Star was still called the Daily Star. Shuster has claimed that Metropolis was visually inspired by Toronto. However, over the years, Metropolis has served as a fictional analogue to New York City.
The newspaper is said to be located in the heart of Metropolis, at the corner of Fifth Street and Concord Lane. One story claims the Planet began publication in 1775 and that George Washington wrote a guest editorial for the first daily edition. The Daily Planet building's most distinguishing and famous feature is the enormous globe that sits on top of the building.
The Daily Planet was a weekly "underground" tabloid newspaper distributed free to colleges throughout the greater Philadelphia area in the 1970s. Greater Philadelphia has at least 60 or 70 colleges and universities. Although it was primarily an arts and entertainment weekly update to the vibrant counterculture and music scene, including the New Jersey suburbs, it contained many politics-oriented features, often on such topics as opposition to the Vietnam war and police brutality. As popular musical acts toured through the area, an in-depth Daily Planet interview was commonly published. In one such instance, the post-Morrison Doors came through town, resulting in an interview with keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who stated that Christian Culture as a whole was in its downfall, and that meth, but not psychedelic drugs, was aiding in its demise.
Veteran journalist Bob Ingram fills in some history of the publication:
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These days, every time I look at a daily newspaper’s weekend entertainment, I think of The Daily Planet, which was The Drummer’s entertainment section with a different cover, distributed free to the Greater Philadelphia colleges to grab all that youth market advertising."
Many readers of the free "Planet" didn't know it was a repackaged part of a larger weekly with a paid circulation. The Daily Planet was an early example of the now-common business model of an advertiser-funded weekly local entertainment guide. By comparison to today's examples, however, it had substantially more political and arts feature content. As of 2012, an internet search yields little evidence of the once popular Daily Planet.
Daily Planet was a promotional page appearing in DC Comics publications from 1976–1981. The Daily Planet contained previews of upcoming stories, as well as recurring features like "The Answer Man", where DC writer/editor Bob Rozakis would answer questions sent in by readers, and a comic strip by cartoonist Fred Hembeck which poked fun at DC characters. Edited by Rozakis, the Daily Planet was set in the format of a page from the fictional Metropolis newspaper where Clark Kent worked.
Publication history
The Daily Planet first appeared in House of Secrets #141, cover-dated May 1976. (The volume numbers started at 76, to correspond with the debut year 1976.) Each week a new issue of the Planet appeared in select issues of DC's lineup. As time went on, new material and features were added, including puzzles, crosswords, and trivia.
Beginning in 1980, the Daily Planet was rotated with its sister publication, the Feature Page, which often featured an expanded "Answer Man" column and "DC Profiles" of company creators. In 1981, the Planet was moved exclusively to DC Dollar ComicsThe Superman Family and World's Finest Comics. With only seven issues produced in 1981, the Daily Planet feature was discontinued after the December 1981 issue (DC cover date March 1982). The "Direct Currents" section was continued sporadically on some comics' letters pages.
When I get to heaven I want to be a 5 year old forever A little closer to the ground Look at all the change I found in the grocery store I jumped off the couch today, I swear I was not afraid 'Cause I had on my red cape just like Superman I caught a blue belly with my best buddy Eddie in the driveway yesterday I got so excited that I squeezed the tail tight It popped off and it got away, but that's okay It's alright CHORUS When I was Five Feeling so alive Running proud and free I'll bet you can't catch me, oh no Running through the rain Splashing in the mud I can act insane Living life' s my favorite game When I get to heaven I want to be a 5 year old forever I've got a fire engine that's just my size I'd drive all night to see the sunrise if my mom would let me There is nothing I can't do when I have on my underoos Just like Luke Skywalker I found I had a neighbor, a real trouble maker named Michael Carmody He poked out all the knotholes in the fence And gave me handfuls of his army figurines So small and green (and good) It's alright REPEAT CHORUS The world had not yet lied to me As far as I knew I was free I was free, I was free REPEAT CHORUS
... emotional worlds of one of the planet’s most ubiquitous birds ... “Imagine for a moment what their daily life would be like without chickens. These animals feed the entire planet with their eggs and meat.
Thus, one would have no trouble imagining he's getting laid on the daily, right? I mean, he works out in leather pants and denim for Christ's sake! Well folks, according to the man himself, we're all wrong.
... of our planet” in recent years. “how we imagine disease as a living enemy to be fought on a daily basis, questions of racial and gender injustice, and the fragility of the political order”.
MacGregor said the books on the list “reflect – and reflect on – the preoccupations of our planet over the last few years”, addressing how “we imagine disease as a living enemy to be fought on a daily ...
