From Electricsistahood:
... I got to wondering to myself, does Superman have a Social Security number? Moreover, does his alter-ego Clark Kent have a Social Security number. And does this require Kal-El to have two Social Security numbers? Beyond that, the questions become endless.
So I started doing some research into the subject. Answering the question, does Clark Kent have a Social Security number, is easy. That was answered way back in 1966 in Action Comics -- his Social Security number is 092-09-6616. Turns out that it was the same number used by a man named Giobatta Baiocchi, who died the year before. ...
Which means, Superman got his Social Security Number in the state of N.Y.
Well Metropolis is often used as a synonym for NYC (as is Gotham) but Clark landed in Smallville which is seen as somewhere in the midwest. So Clark probably applied for his card when he got a job in New York.
ReplyDelete@11:18 I believe in Superman Dawn of Justice, Gotham and Metropolis were two separate adjacent cities
ReplyDeleteDidn't Superman enter the US illegally? Did he ever get actual US citizenship or even formal work authorization?
ReplyDeleteBatman writer and editor Dennis O’Neil put it this way (although this exact quotation varies in several versions): “Gotham is Manhattan below Fourteenth Street at 3 a.m., November 28 in a cold year. Metropolis is Manhattan between Fourteenth and One Hundred and Tenth Streets on the brightest, sunniest July day of the year.”
ReplyDeleteClark Kent grew up in Smallville, Kansas, and actually had several jobs as a teenager, which would have required him to get a Social Security Number. Kansas starts with 509-515.
So this means Clark likely worked cash under the table, as many illegal immigrants must until they can get ahold of forged documents. In order to get the job at the Daily Planet, he had to use the identity of a dead man.
ReplyDeleteAh Action Comics 1966. I’m sure I read that issue as I read every Superman comic that year.
12 cents each on the drug store stand.
. It was a different world.
Superman was granted honorary citizenship to all UN Nations, but in April 2011 Superman renounced his United States citizenship in Action Comics #900.
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