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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[...]

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[...]

I love Superman, and yet, in my mind, he's been twisted around into some kind of alien thing." – Jerry Siegel 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 ownership to Superman and enforces the 2001 contract[...]

This morning we received a motherlode of Cerebus sketches, mostly by Dave Sim (below) but also one from Barry Windsor Smith (above). There were also a couple of letters, one from Harlan Ellison where he agreed in principle to write a Cerebus story for Dave Sim, but also one from Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman,[...]

In 1999–after Congress amended copyright statute to grant additional statutory heirs termination rights, and after learning that Jerry Siegel's heirs had served Superman copyright termination notices on DC–Jean reiterated her commitment "to honor" the 1992 Agreement, and again asked for a bonus: I have learned from the Internet that Joanne Siegel has filed copyrigh claim for[...]

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[...]

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[...]

As for their Action Comics #276, at CGC 9.6 it is the highest graded copy to date, and is currently at $1,550 with 12 hours remaining. Lastly, with all the focus being on Superman and Jerry Siegel-related memorabilia, it's easy to gloss over the spectacular copies of the Amazing Spider-Man found in these auctions There are[...]

 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[...]

And to think that during the early years when I sought the get the character before the public, scoffing editors called it a hair-brained idea." 8/19/77 Jerry Siegel Jerry was very interested in history and the legacies left behind by famous people On a trip to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC he and his wife[...]

 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[...]