JTA — When Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created the Superman character in the early 1930s, they were still living at their parents’ homes. Of course, the character and his story — the ...

Their mother, Helen Louise Cohen, was a pretty, lively teenager with brown hair when she met Joe Shuster ... which her children have shared with me. They believe several others were given away ...

A miraculous canister lands on contemporary Earth containing a child of untold ... Siegel and Joe Shuster began workshopping the Superman concept before debuting the character in Action Comics ...

Joanne Siegel, who played a role in the creation of the Superman saga in the 1930s as Joe Shuster’s teenage artist’s model for Lois Lane and later married the Man of Steel’s co-creator ...

Champion of the Oppressed" by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster In the pages of Action Comics #1, Superman makes his iconic debut. The story begins with a brief, one-page explanation of the character as ...

His illustration style was similar to Joe Shuster’s, Superman’s other co ... who can’t understand the strange language the child speaks, leading them to think that “his people came from ...

Joe Shuster was a dreamer whose creation, Superman, became a beloved symbol of Americana. Mr. Shuster, who died last week at 78, was 15 when his friend, Jerry Siegel, thought of the character and ...

Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel’s revolutionary idea Helen was born on November 5, 1921, to a Jewish family in Oklahoma. They moved to Cleveland when she was in high school.