![]() Despite all their hard work, they were once more rejected every time. Thus in 1933, the duo created a comic about the newly heroic character and tried to sell it to various publishers as a newspaper comic strip. Siegel wanted to refine the concept of the "Superman" and decided to make him a hero who used his special powers to help mankind instead of conquering them. There, Siegel and Shuster created a short story titled "The Reign of the Superman", about a mad scientist who grants a vagrant telepathic abilities through an experimental serum and how the empowered man wished to use his powers to achieve world domination. ![]() During that period, Shuster produced a five-issue fanzine called Science Fiction: The Advanced Guard for Future Civilization. The two were trying to make ends meet during The Great Depression through writing and illustrating short stories and selling them to publishers, but were rejected each time. Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (October 17th, 1914- January 28th, 1996) and Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10th, 1914- July 30th, 1992) were a comic book writer-artist duo who are practically responsible for giving birth to The Golden Age of Comic Books by creating the first modern superhero, Superman.īoth were young Jewish boys who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio (Jerry was born and raised there, while Joe was born in Toronto, Canada and he and his family moved to Cleveland when he was 9) and they shared a love of science fiction and adventure stories. ![]() Shuster on the left, Siegel on the right. ![]()
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