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Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Fall 1939 Actually one of two copies of Superman #2 in 9.2, though most would agree that this has notably better eye appeal than the other one Sold at tonight's Comic Connect auction for $94,000. This book is ridiculous. Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Fall 1939 Actually one of two copies of Superman[...]

Brad also talked about Joe Shuster's last years and how it wasn't all doom and gloom He had been married once (but divorced, his wife was into a cult) and had a girlfriend Also on the panel and spoke towards the end was Peter M Coogan, who said he had some some research for the[...]

No way we could let the week of release of Man of Steel pass without a story of the sale of an Action Comics #1, could we?  You all remember this one from a few weeks back — a copy of Action Comics #1 had been found in the wall of an old house  —[...]

Brad Ricca has written a biography of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, entitled Super Boys Well timed with the Man Of Steel movie coming out. The blurb says "Among scores of new discoveries, the book reveals the first stories and pictures ever published by the two, where the first Superman story really[...]

Finally, we understand exactly why Superman seems to be so angry with a car on the cover of Action Comics #1. For the second time in two years, someone has driven a car through the fence surrounding Joe Shuster's former home in Glenville, Cleveland. It's not just any old fence, this fence is made up of  large[...]

[Though whozwhos in the forum has some excellent observations on this whole matter — 2018 edit to remove now-broken forum link.  Essentially, the argument put forth there asserts that the cover must be by Joe Shuster because of the Hercules straps on Superman's boots which were part of the original character design,  and while I'm[...]

"I can't stand to look at a Superman comic book. It makes me physically ill. I love Superman, and yet, in my mind, he's been twisted around into some kind

 Ahead of the anticipated November 2013 copyright termination filing by Shuster's heirs, DC has asserted that a 1992 agreement with Joe Shuster's sister Jean Peavy, shortly after Shuster's death, leaves the Shuster heirs with no statutory basis for terminating the copyright  Best says in part: In between appeals against the Siegel heirs, consisting of claim and[...]

It's all going a bit meta. The other week, Joe Michael Straczynski spoke to Aint It Cool News and said, talking about Before Watchmen. But how is it any

The check used by Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics) to buy the rights for Superman from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster  for $130 on March 1, 1938 has just sold at auction from comics & related collectable auction house Comic Connect for $160,000. One of the most significant comic-related artifacts to ever surface for a[...]

 It's got a bevel and some chrome and texture, but that aside it's pretty close in spirit to what Joe Shuster, Fred Ray, Wayne Boring, and others were doing with it 70+ years ago. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Mark Waid And Daredevil's Fingers | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors Remember the Bleeding Cool[...]

In October 2011, the comics industry was stunned by the news that an unimaginably important artifact of our history had surfaced nearly 75 years after it had been issued:  The check used by Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics, of course) to buy the rights for Superman from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster  for $130[...]

Action Comics volume 1 number 1 page 1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster is the big bang of the comic book multiverse It's the start of everything we know, and evidence of it can be detected everywhere you look, all these years later  That page has been expanded and stretched and cut apart and[...]

 The comic, featuring the first appearance of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and published by DC Comics, is widely considered the most important American comic book ever released. It has become the most famous individual copy of any comic book in the world  And now, the Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1, graded CGC[...]

 So I asked Zaid for his thoughts on this most recent development, and he told me, "This current incantation of the Superman litigation offers a fascinating glimpse into an area that would otherwise have been normally closed off to the public; the attorney-client relationship between Marc Toberoff and the heirs of Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and[...]

The check that DC Comics used to buy Superman has to be one of my favorite bits of comic history to surface in quite some time. I have a hunch we'll be

It has long been part of the record of comic book history that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster sold the rights for Superman to Detective Comics, Inc (the company which was to become DC Comics, of course) for $130. Here is the March 1, 1938 check that DC Comics publisher and accountant Jack Liebowitz issued to[...]

I kind of wish Jim Lee had gone forward with this Action Comics design, because it's a reinterpretation of one of the most classic Superman motiffs, which first appeared on a Superman cover on the original (and it's weird to have to put it that way, but here we are) Action Comics #13  by Joe[...]

 In 1938, Action Comics 1 introduced the world to Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, changed the world of comics and all of entertainment, and over the subsequent 73 years Superman has become one of the world's best-known fictional characters. Two copies have sold for a million dollars or more in recent times —  last year, a[...]

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