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Siegel went running to the house of his classmate and neighbor, Joe Shuster, the equally penniless son of a tailor from Toronto, and the two of them worked all day -- Siegel writing and Shuster drawing -- until they had finished no fewer than twelve newspaper strips. Then they set forth to sell their new hero to the waiting world, which proved utterly indifferent. "A rather immature piece of work," said United Feature. "Crude and hurried," said Esquire Features. Even at Detective Comics, which finally bought the feature after much argument and delay to help launch Action Comics four years later, Publisher...
...party also included an unsual encounter with the late publishing magnate, Max Shuster...
...over a drink, and my English was barely understandable." Evidently this was inconsequental for Shuster was won over. Haviaras' natural enthusiasm for writing and art apparently charmed the older man, and he promised to publish his first novel, whenever Haviaras produced...
...Exactly twenty years later I finish my book, Max Shuster is thoroughly dead, and the publishing house has become a division of Gulf and Western," Haviaras smiles. The loss of his friend did not daunt him, however, and "[Simon and Shuster] ended up publishing the book anyway," he says...
...right here that she's come out against Mr. Reagan's environmental and fiscal policies and is "appalled by the nuclear buildup." Now here's the best part. The Republican that's been doing the job for the past twelve years, a Mr. E.G. ("Bud") Shuster, says that Miss Jane is going to bring out all her fancy Beverly Hills friends and turn the race into "Hollywood East." Well, that got her madder than a wet possum, I guess, 'cause she came right back saying that her campaign "won't be predicated on stars...