Word: supermanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Maurice Evans made the mistake of asking Author Bernard Shaw to join him in a transatlantic broadcast celebrating Man and Superman's record Broadway run. He was promptly winged with a Shavian shaft...
...world of the comics was never the same after two Cleveland teen-agers turned Superman loose in it. In 15 years, he made over $400,000 for Writer Jerome Siegel and Cartoonist Joseph Shuster, and inspired a score of imitators. Superman was the first cartoon hero to make the reverse jump from comic books to newspaper syndication...
...vision, impenetrable skin and muscle, Superman has been no great shakes in a courtroom. After a falling out with their publishers a year ago, Siegel & Shuster filed a super-suit for $5,000,000. Among other things they demanded the rights to their creation. (Like most comic-strippers they had signed away all rights.) As the suit dragged on, the publishers lured other artists to draw Superman, although the strip still carried Siegel's & Shuster's names. Last week, in Manhattan, Newspaper Broker Albert Zugsmith arranged a settlement: Siegel & Shuster got $100,000, and National Comics Publications...
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both 33, already have a new crimebuster on their drawing boards. Their Funnyman is an athletic, but not quite superhuman, combination of swashbuckler and Keystone Cop. Now competing with Superman for the comic-bookworms, Funnyman will jump to the funnypapers when Siegel & Shuster find a syndicate...
...train comes roaring round the bend, a figure (a bird? a plane?) hurtles through the air. He races the locomotive to the broken rail. Suddenly the screen goes black. Will Superman (who looks slightly flabby in the flesh) reach the broken-rail in time to prevent the wreck? Will he weld the rail with the glare of his X-ray eyes? Or will he straight-arm the train to a stop? Find out next Saturday in the next thrilling chapter of Superman...