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It started at Cinema Vila Rica on Avenida 9 de Julho in São Paulo in 1978. Fabio Marques was four years old when his father took him to see Superman: The Movie. Christopher Reeve flew across the screen, and something permanent was set in motion.

Super-Homem.COM has been online since March 1996, one of the first Superman-dedicated websites in Brazil, launched in the dial-up days when Lois & Clark was still on the air and Teri Hatcher's photo was going viral before anyone had a word for that. The internet was new, Superman was everywhere, and a website dedicated to the Man of Steel felt like the most natural thing in the world. Thirty years later, it's still here.

Fabio is a letterhack in the truest sense: his letters were published not just by DC Comics in the United States, but also by Editora Abril and Panini in Brazil. Like Siegel and Shuster, he is a son of immigrants. He started reading Superman in English as a teenager, after setting aside his Brazilian collection, but he still knows the full history of how the character has been published in Brazil across eight decades. During the Triangle Era edited by Mike Carlin, he won two Baldy Awards, the most coveted prize in Superman fandom, and the rare Toupee Award.

Through the late 1990s and early 2000s he wrote for HQ Express, Omelete, UniversoHQ, and Sci-Fi News, interviewing artists like Aluir Amancio and Mike Manley, both pencillers of Superman Adventures. In 2001 he organized the Superman ExpoFAN in São Paulo and contributed to a full-page tribute ad in The Hollywood Reporter marking the 50th anniversary of Adventures of Superman, the only Brazilian on the list. In 2006, Wizard Brasil #31 identified him as one of the character's foremost specialists in Brazil.

In 2013, he traveled to Cleveland for the 80th anniversary of Superman's creation, walking the streets where Siegel and Shuster turned a teenage dream into the most enduring character in comics history. The Cleveland Plain Dealer covered his visit. That trip also took him to Metropolis, Illinois for the 35th Superman Celebration, to Philadelphia where he met and interviewed Dean Cain and Brandon Routh, and finally to New York for the Man of Steel premiere. He returned to Metropolis in 2018 for the 40th Celebration, again as a sponsor.

On Father's Day 2018, during what would have been Jack Kirby's 100th birthday year, Fabio visited Kirby's grave in Thousand Oaks, California, holding a copy of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133, the issue where Kirby fired the opening shot of the Bronze Age. Since February 2024, he has been an official member of the Siegel & Shuster Society in Cleveland.

Super-Homem.COM is not a news aggregator. It is thirty years of serious, uninterrupted engagement with the most important character in the history of comics: documented, traveled, earned.