Okay, so this is not exactly a Smallville story or news, but what a great story it is!  A Brooklyn special education student who wrote an essay about his personal hero, his teacher, landed both him and his teacher a role in a Superman comic book. 

Thirteen year old Hakeem Bennet, an eighth grader at Public School 36 in Brooklyn, NY won the Stone Arch Books national essay contest that encouraged kids to write an essay about their real life heroes, and Hakeem chose his 8th-grade teacher, Matthew Brown.

“He’s a role model to me,” Hakeem explained. “He helps you if you need help with anything. He’s always there.”

Brown is blind in one eye and has tunnel vision in the other. Hakeem writes in his essay that the courageous way Brown lives his life, despite his disability, makes him a true hero.

The book is called “The Kid Who Saved Superman.”  The glossy, colorful book features Hakeem and Brown as characters and chronicles a school field trip that goes awry when earthquakes rumble through, trapping students in a mountain.  Superman shows up to rescue the students but needs help when he is weakened by Kryptonite.

Enter Hakeem, who saves the day.

Read the full article at the NY Daily News.