A Cleveland group dedicated to celebrating the city as the "Birthplace of Superman" is leading a campaign to get the familiar "S" insignia emblazoned on Ohio specialty license plates.

The Plain Dealer reports that the nonprofit Siegel & Shuster Society, founded in 2008 to commemorate the creation of the Man of Steel in the city's Glenville neighborhood by a teenage Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, has to collect 500 names on a petition as the first step toward the plate. A state senator has agreed to propose the plate in the Ohio legislature once the signatures are gathered.

The organization hopes to have the plates available by 2013, the 75th anniversary of Superman's debut in Action Comics #1. Specialty plates, sold by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, typically cost anywhere between $25 and $35 more than standard plates. A portion of sales would go to the Siegel & Shuster Society to fund Superman projects.