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May 10, 2018 · As much about the comic book industry’s evolving relationship with creators and the characters and ideas they’re responsible for as the man at the center of the story, The Joe Shuster Story...
This is why people who said comics were dying 20 years ago were right, and why they are still correct today, even if it doesn't die next week. But as others are pointing out, there is a shift to digital and collected editions that may be keeping the actual dollars of sales in a good place.
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That publisher’s legal problems coincided with the infamous Senate hearings on the connection between comics and juvenile delinquency, leaving Shuster fearful of public shame or legal repercussions.
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Before making his name (if not his fortune) in the nascent comic book market, Jerry Siegel thought of himself primarily as a comedy writer. Before 1938, Siegel worked on a number of humor books, and even developed a mail-in ten-week correspondence course on how to understand the basic elements of comedy. Siegel’s love of comedy is apparent in the f...
Red-headed, debonair comedy club owner Larry Davis is more Bruce Wayne than Clark Kent in execution, smoothly handling talent, customers, and the ladies before slipping away into his double life. After accidentally foiling a crime in his own club, Davis gets the taste for fighting evil, and in the superhero tradition develops his own alternate iden...
After the failure of Funnyman, Jerry Siegel would eventually return to DC for a second stint as a work-for-hire writer, filling in much of the world of the Silver Age Legion of Super-Heroes. By 1966, Siegel would leave comics behind entirely, working until the end of his life as a file clerk in Los Angeles for no more than $7,000 a year. Joe Shuste...
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Jul 9, 2019 · As depicted in The Joe Shuster Story, the Canadian-born artist who had grown up during the Great Depression is proud and happy to have a well-paying job. It seems that, had the decision been left entirely up to him, Shuster would have been happy to maintain the status quo as long as possible.
Jan 27, 2022 · The picture may be bleak, but this doesn't mean that Hollywood has killed comics. Despite any concerns, the rise to prominence of comic book adaptations has only helped the comic book industry in the long run.
Oct 6, 2018 · Of course, the character and his story — the arrival from another planet, his dual identities as mild-mannered reporter and flying, bulletproof crime fighter — would go on to change the comics...
