SUPER ANIMAL: Superman Batman Graphic Novels

Superman Batman Graphic Novels

He dreamed up a great idea one summer night and spent the rest of his life fighting for his right to it. He died in semi-obscurity and near-poverty, but Jerry Siegel is one of the most important figures in pop culture history.

Jerome Siegel was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 to Jewish immigrants who ran a small men’s clothing shop. In 1932, his father died of heart failure when the store was robbed.
Jerry was a shy, unathletic, nearsighted student who was an obsessive reader, especially of pulp magazines and comic strips. If he wasn’t reading, he was at the movies or cranking out his own escapist yarns and mystery tales, for himself and for The Glenville Torch school newspaper.
In late 1932, he published Science Fiction: The Advance Guard of Future Civilization, which featured “action adventure stories upon this and other worlds.” The third issue included a story entitled “The Reign of the Superman,” about a bald megalomaniac with designs for world conquest.