Showing posts with label Joe Shuster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Shuster. Show all posts
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Cleveland unveils statues of Superman and his creators 8/2/25

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87 years after Superman debuted... 33 years after original Superman artist Joe Shuster died... 29 years after original Superman writer Jerry...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Speaking at the Capital Jewish Museum [AKA DC in DC]

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This past summer, I reluctantly loaned Bill Finger’s paperweight —one of the only items he owned that still survives—and other items to a Li...
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Thursday, June 22, 2023

"CBS Evening News" announces Superman creators will receive benefits, restored credit (12/23/75)

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Introduced by Walter Cronkite, the closing segment of the 12/23/75 CBS Evening News announced that after decades of lawsuits, humilliation,...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

The historic route Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel ran in 1933 (time-lapse)

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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman came out in 2008. The year before, I had made my first trip to Cleveland (where Superman was born...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Sensitivity adjustment in my school visit presentations

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I believe I began talking about Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman at schools even before the book came out in 2008. My presentation ...
Friday, October 5, 2018

First photo with Phil Yeh, the first journalist to cover Siegel and Shuster's plight

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In 2008, the year I started this blog, I had the honor of interviewing cartoonist and writer Phil Yeh . All fans of superhero comics owe Ph...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

"The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman"

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Today is the 80th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman. In honor of that... Comic book creator duos often mirror their creatio...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

“By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family” explained

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Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s big idea, Superman, debuted with their names on it in 1938. After they sued their publisher and lost in 1947...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Jay Emmett, negotiated Siegel and Shuster’s Superman settlement, 1928-2015

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Twice in a two-week period, I was too late. My list of pop culture figures to track down and interview was reduced by two with the deaths o...
Monday, December 1, 2014

“Holding Kryptonite: Truth, Justice, and America’s First Superhero”

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To paraphrase the back cover of the 2014 self-published book Holding Kryptonite by Lauren Agostino and A.L. Newberg: “In 1997, a young law ...
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