After many years of struggle, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster hit the comic book jackpot with their creation Superman, only to see it slip away from their control and for DC Comics to keep not just the ...

Siegel and Shuster created Superman together ... The character's first appearance was in "Action Comics" No. 1 in April 1938. The check was saved by a staffer at DC Comics in the 1970s whose ...

With Supergirl actually created by Siegel and Shuster rather than Otto Binder and Al Plastino. Well. issue 7 is out today. And… switcheroo. Is this a mistake? Using the old template? Or has DC ...

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 ...

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's cheque from DC Comics for the rights to Superman has been put up for auction. The piece of paper that would launch the controversial and long-running rights battle ...

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creation of Superman revolutionized ... Since the dawn of superhero comics, DC Comics' Superman has been one of the most significant, genre-defining heroes in ...

The Artist Behind Superman: The Joe Shuster Story ... War II is telling. Siegel pitched the idea of Superboy to DC Comics where it was summarily rejected. But once Jerry was out of the picture ...

Here is just a small part of their story, a part that relays that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were not that young or that broke during their first stint at DC Comics. That’s right, I said first ...

Furious letters sent by the creator of Superman to comics executives ... for just $130. Jerry Siegel created the world famous superhero in the early 1930s with his friend Joe Shuster.

“A gift from Jerry Siegel’s grandsons Michael and James Larson – a reprint of the first issue of Action Comics signed by ... created Superman with Joe Shuster in 1938, largely launching ...

According to the lawsuit, Shuster sold the copyright with co-author Jerome Siegel for a total of $130 to DC Comics in 1938. According to the lawsuit, British legal tradition terminates these ...

A copy of Action Comics #1 ... His illustration style was similar to Joe Shuster’s, Superman’s other co-creator, but it was more developed. Siegel and Shuster had temporarily parted ways ...