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Over the decades, multiple women have claimed to be the inspiration for Lois Lane. One name that seems to pop up more than most others is Lo...

I give Bill Finger credit for as much as I accurately can. I credit him with being the co-creator of Batman. I credit him with nicknaming Ba...

Brad Ricca, whose Superman documentary Last Son debuted this past weekend, posted very nice words about Boys of Steel on his blog. (I was ...

I've added a list of upcoming appearances; look down and to the right and please check back regularly for updates.

Another kind review . (Shortest post ever.)

The GeekDad blog on the WIRED site reviewed Boys of Steel : "an excellent read." An interview about this and a future book is at ...

Wrote the first draft on May 3, 2004. Many drafts later, sold the manuscript on March 3, 2005. Today, July 22, 2008, the book comes out. You...

In honor of... a) the imminent release of Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman (7/22/08 —tomorrow! ) b) the imminent start of Comic-Con...

Boys of Steel was plugged in the Chicago Tribune . But the Chicago Tribune did not say "This book is that good." That was here ....

The Batman movie The Dark Knight opens today. Even though I have not yet seen it, I already know what it's missing. Batman’s “Dark K...

The Cleveland neighborhood (Glenville) in which Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman wants to acknowledge that. Part of the fundrai...

Though I've been immersed in Superman and Batman research for four years, a somewhat obvious question had not occurred to me: did Joe Sh...

A tale of marketing madness: One night I took a break from sensible promotional tactics and Googled "Jerry Siegel." I was not look...

On my January 2007 photo research trip to Cleveland, my second stop (after Jerry Siegel's Kimberley Avenue house ) was the house he move...

Common sense says a writer does his research before writing the book. I first visited Cleveland, the setting of Boys of Steel , in January 2...

In the decades of literature about the history of Superman, I've noticed an odd omission. The house in which Jerry Siegel lived when he ...

None of us has experienced loss on the level that Superman has. As a baby, he lost nearly everything at once—his parents, his home, his plan...

This short interview filmed on a digital camera under an overhang during a rainstorm at the Superman Celebration begins at 1:52: The intervi...

Every post for the past two months has been about Boys of Steel : The Creators of Superman . However, I have not forgotten about my pledge e...

...but a good review nonetheless, from The Horn Book , which they say is hard to please: Faster than a bionic pencil, more powerful than the...

Last night, I Googled "boys of steel" for the first time...last night. To my pleasant surprise, four new reviews turned up. One is...

After my school visits, I'm often privileged to receive written feedback from students. I began incorporating Boys of Steel: The Creato...

When you think "amusement park," you probably next think "books." Some Six Flags locations feature Superman-themed rides...

From June 12 to June 15, I was among the nicest people I have met in recent memory. Combine the homespun charm of a small Midwestern town wi...

In Superman mythology, there is only one Metropolis. In the United States, there is also only one Metropolis. Superman's Metropolis is i...