Jerry Siegel (born October 17, 1914, January 28, 1996) is an American comic book author and creator of Superman. Curriculum vitae
The youngest of six children of emigrants from Lithuania. His father, Mitchell, was a sign painter and instilled a passion for art in his son. Siegel has been attending science fiction fan meetings for over 20 years and began creating his own stories, published in the Science Stories Wonder magazine. While studying at Cleveland, he met his future collaborator, Joe Shuster. In January 1933 they published the first science-fiction story about Superman. Fanzin stopped being published after five issues and Siegel and Shuster unsuccessfully tried to interest their publisher histories. Detective Dan: Secret Operative No. 48, sold 48 copies of the book, but this comic never appeared. In 1938, they signed a deal with National Allied Publications (later DC Comics) - Superman's first episode appeared in June 1938 in the Action Comics series. Siegel also created another comic hero, Specter.
In 1946, Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to Superman. Siegel also created Funnyman and in the 1950s he created an anonymous story about Superman. In the 1960s he collaborated with Marvel Comics (under the pseudonym Joe Carter) to create the adventures of the Human Torch and also under his own name stories about the Angel of the X-Men universe. He has also written stories for Archie Comics, Mighty Comics, Charlton Comics, Western Publishing and Mondadori Editore. In the 1980s, he created the comic book The Starling with Val Mayerik. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):
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