Jerry siegel joe shuster biography

The pair used Superman to defeat Hitler, the Luftwaffe, and his army in a special comic released in (before the US entered WWII) about how their hero would end the war, including punching the Nazi leader in the face.

A few weeks ago, I was driving home from the West Side Market with a friend who is new to the area.

Jerry siegel joe shuster biography

During one of our conservations on the road she asked, “Did you know Superman is from Cleveland?” Of course I did! I think it’s one the first things that every Clevelander is taught, especially since my grandmother grew up only two miles from Jerry Siegel’s house on Kimberly Avenue.

By Robyn Marcs, Grants Manager at the Western Reserve Historical Society

Was it fate or an intervention from Kryptonians that brought the Shuster family from Toronto to Cleveland in ?

Whichever it was, it was certainly to pop culture’s benefit that the two young men who were, as The Saturday Evening Post once wrote, “two small, shy, nervous, myopic lads who can barely cope wit