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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[...]

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[...]

And finally, (2:25) the guy in the blue suit and glasses is a young Jerry Siegel I got the link to the youtube video from Mark who I believe got it from the great Mark Evanier. [youtube]http://youtu.be/yNaMbFAQF4U[/youtube] If you haven't seen this then definitely click the link This is the first public appearance of Superman back[...]

The Royal Canadian Mint are minting 50 cent coins, each with a lenticular "tails" side, featuring Superman in 1938 and 2013, the art of Jerry Siegel and Jim Lee respectively, depending which angle you hold the coin Oh and Kryptonian letters that officially read 75 Years Of Superman But get this, because it's Canada, they[...]

Jamie Colville, bless his cotton socks, recorded the audio from nineteen panels from San Diego Comic Con as well as the Eisner Awards. And here they all

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[...]

We know from the lengthy legal battles between DC Comics and the heirs of Jerry Siegel, that DC has maintained that an unknown staff artist drew the cover of Action Comics #1 based on an interior panel from that first story A relevant bit from DC's lawyers: DC's artists also created the cover of Action Comics[...]

The ongoing dispute over the rights to Superman has taken an apparently critical turn; another step in this dispute between the Siegal estate, and Warner Bros and DC Comics: The US Appeal courts have ruled in favour of Warner Bros and DC Entertainment in the dispute with the heirs of Jerry Siegel over the rights and[...]