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Superman first appeared in 1939, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, published in Action Comics #1 by National Comics – later to be known as DC Comics And in doing so, created the superhero genre But it was a long road to publication and was hawked round studio after studio, publisher after publisher for[...]

The red-and-blue combination is generally pleasing to the eye; that's why Superman's creators, Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, chose the red trunks with the blue bodysuit after all If it's good enough for the American flag, why isn't it good enough for Superman? If you love Superman, why would you want to get rid of[...]

Famously, in 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the co-creators of Superman, sold all rights to the character to the comic-book publisher Detective Comics, Inc, later National Comics and forerunner of DC Comics, for $130 Later Siegel and Shuster would sue DC Comics for publishing Superboy comics, for royalties from the Superman radio show and[...]

Famously, in 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster the co-creator of Superman, sold all rights to the character to the comic-book publisher Detective Comics, Inc, later National Comics and forerunner of DC Comics, for $130 Later Siegel and Shuster would sue DC Comics for publishing Superboy comics, for royalties from the Superman radio show and[...]

Jerry Siegel was serving in the Army when he learned from Superman co-creator Joe Shuster that the comic book publisher Detective Comics Inc, later to be bought out by National Comics, and become DC Comics, had published the first Superboy story in a 1944 issue of More Fun Comics Siegel had tried to pitch his[...]

This internal document from National Comics from 1939 provides an inside look at how the publisher who would be DC Comics confronted their first legal threat after the initial success of Superman in Action Comics #1, as publishers feared a lawsuit accusing Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster of plagiarism And with some major[...]

The auction house ComicConnect is currently selling off a number of historical documents from Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman, with Joe Shuster Famously, in 1938, the pair sold all rights to Superman to their publisher for $130 Later Siegel and Shuster would sue, claiming royalties, something that was only finally settled by their families[...]

The auction house ComicConnect is currently selling off a number of historical documents from Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman, with Joe Shuster Famously, in 1938, the pair sold all rights to Superman to their publisher for $130 Later Siegel and Shuster would sue, claiming royalties, something that was only finally settled by their families[...]

Superman's origin evolved considerably after it was briefly explained by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the first few panels of Action Comics #1 in 1938.  Within a year, those basic panels were expanded upon until they gradually began to take the form that we're familiar with today.  Interestingly, much of this expansion took place[...]

Created by Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Dr Occult, a detective with supernatural abilities, first appeared in New Fun #6, cover-dated October 1935.  The character continued after that title changed to More Fun Comics, and also appeared in Centaur's The Comics Magazine #1 using the name Dr Mystic, under circumstances whose specifics are[...]

Best remembered historically as a magazine publisher and currently, as the owner of digital properties ranging from Mashable to Humble Bundle, Ziff-Davis was also briefly a comic book publisher of note.  The company published over 50 comic book titles, mostly from 1950-1952, and mostly very short-lived.  Many of their titles are best known for painted[...]

But it's the Radio Squad story by Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that highlights this issue Inspired by the 1934 comic strip Radio Patrol and Tim McCoy, Police Car 17 film from the same year, Radio Squad debuted in More Fun Comics #11 under the title "Calling All Cars." More Fun Comics #45 is[...]

Joe Shuster and Paul Cassidy did the cover and art, with Jerry Siegel scripting the story The book contains a full-page ad for the 1939 New York's World Fair edition Overstreet 2020 VG 4.0 value = $6,600 CGC census 3/21: 10 in 4.5, 50 higher." Sometimes I wish comics were still this simple Awesome, iconic image[...]

The definitive collection will notably include work from one of the godfathers of the comics industry as a while, Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel The book also, of course, includes work from the original The Spider creators, writer Ted Cowan and artist Reg Bunn, whose work is remastered by Rebellion's team. The Spider cover[...]

Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, first serialized in 1912, is another prominent example. A scene from A Message from Mars showing The Messenger demonstrating his power to a human inventor. The Strange Visitor The 1899 play A Message from Mars by Richard Ganthony is another example of the world's fictional obsession with Mars which is far[...]

By which point, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster had taken ownership of the word Dominant ownership After that, Superman belonged to America and the entire world and stood for something very different than what the Nazi propagandists had in mind. It's impossible to overestimate how important that was in the context of the global events of[...]

Man of Steel comes to its ending as Superman and Rogol Zaar continue their battle while we see the fate of Lois and Jon in the past. Is it a good read?

The closing price for the 1938 comic, featuring the first appearance of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster,  is the third-highest price ever paid for a comic book, behind the $3,207,852 sale of an Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0 in 2014, and the $2,161,000 sale of a different copy of Action Comics #1 CGC 9.0 (the Nicolas Cage[...]

Vintage comic book auction house Comic Connect has decided to continue the auction of an Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 after a website glitch at auction close.

Update: The auction for this Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 has resumed today due to a website glitch at auction close.  See update for details. Update 2: With the auction now final, the hammer price on the sale of this Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5 is $2,052,000.  Original post continues below: An Action Comics #1 CGC 8.5[...]

Superhero comics were a huge part of popular media during World War II, and were often used as a way to make strong anti-Nazi statements.

The landmark DC Comics publication collects the Superman stories by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster which first appeared in Action Comics #1-4 with the addition of four new pages  The title was originally conceived as a one-shot, and was released in May 1939, but went on to become one of the foundational DC Comics series[...]

Bleeding Cool has received legal documents from the United States Court Of Appeal Ninth Circuit. They show that, yesterday, the courts found against the estate of Jerry Siegel over rights to Superman, and for Warner Bros and DC Comics. Siegel's daughter Laura Siegel Larson, had brought a case against Warners in 2004, three years after making a deal with[...]

A month ago, DC Entertainment changed their Supergirl "created by" credit. From the one on Justice League 3001 #5.... With Supergirl based on characters

Joe Schuster was best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman with writer Jerry Siegel They created a character that would be recognized everywhere but the beginning of that process was not a bed a roses They didn't find a newspaper or publisher who wanted to buy their character right away because America was[...]

The birth of Jerry Siegel and  Joe Shuster's Superman in Action Comics #1 laid the foundation for a formula that was emulated often in the Golden Age, and during the many decades that followed. In 1939, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics for National, Captain Marvel debuted in Whiz Comics for Fawcett Publications and Timely unleashed[...]

By Ryan Michael Both of DC's flagship characters were introduced to the public towards the tail end of the Great Depression. Over the decades, both have

I don't think there is a question of whether he belongs on the monument but I think some folks may agree begrudgingly. Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster – Together they created the first superhero, the one that created a genre, an icon for Truth, Justice and the American Way It's hard to argue the importance of[...]

Fine had a unique role in the creation of Superman, he's the one that brought Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster together in the first place. Fine went to school with Shuster in the 30s They worked together on the school paper doing a comic strip called Jerry The Journalist that depicted Fine as a grasshopper[...]

From the independent boom of the 80's to the retro fun of the Silver Age, heck, even going back to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, inventors of Superman and the modern superhero, good comics come from having fun and an earnest desire to entertain. The other approach is simply treading water until market fatigue drowns us[...]