Siegel and Shuster ... in the early 1930s. The character's first appearance was in "Action Comics" No. 1 in April 1938. The check was saved by a staffer at DC Comics in the 1970s whose heirs ...

First created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for ... “We have a real opportunity to breathe life into these characters,” Zaslav says. To start, DC is going back to where it all ...

there’s no question that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creation popularized these stories, and Kal-El/Clark Kent remains one of the pop culture’s most well-known fictional characters.

PHILADELPHIA - The check sent to Jerry Siegel ... showing that DC paid for full ownership and rights to the man from Krypton, but a legal dispute over creator's rights to the character is still ...

The payment for Superman to Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster from Detective ... After four years of pitching the character, DC made it the cover feature of Action Comics no. 1 and a phenomena was ...

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster the co-creator of Superman, sold all rights to the character to the comic-book publisher Detective Comics, Inc, later National Comics and forerunner of DC Comics ...

Early on, Jerry Siegel and Shuster tried to sell Superman to newspaper syndicates but failed. They then turned to DC Comics, which bought the character, who made his first appearance in Action ...

Jerry was the model for Superman. He was standing there in a Superman-like pose. He said their character ... company of DC Comics — to agree to give both Shuster and Siegel $20,000 a year ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series on the history of Superman’s creators, Clevelanders Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, in honor of the character’s 75th anniversary.

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the co-creators of Superman, sold all rights to the character to the comic-book publisher Detective Comics, Inc, later National Comics and forerunner of DC Comics ...

The estate of Joseph Shuster, who co-created the Superman character alongside Jerry Siegel, previously filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery and DC Comics in an attempt to block the ...