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...bird! It's a plane! It's an annuity! Superman has belatedly come to the rescue of his creators. Joseph Shuster and Jerry Siegel, the two cartoonists who introduced the Man of Steel alias Reporter Clark Kent 43 years ago, have lately been living in near poverty-Shuster in New York, Siegel in Los Angeles. In 1938, they signed away their rights to Superman to Detective Comics. It had taken the pair, both now 61, five years to get their idea accepted and they were grateful for the $15 a week Detective paid them to produce the strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Man and Superman | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...Superman...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Coach O'Neil: The Freshman's 'Buddy' | 12/17/1975 | See Source »

Cornell once again has ex-superman Don Fanelli in the backfield, ex-simply because he is not as great as he was before smashing his knee in the Harvard game last year. Fanelli is now just a very good halfback...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 10/11/1975 | See Source »

...only programs a grownup can possibly stand are those intended for children. Or, more properly, those that cater to those preadolescent fantasies that most have never truly abandoned. The Six Million Dollar Man is a well-established example of this innocent merriment. While the children get off on their superman fantasies, Mom and Pop may mull the sexual problems and possibilities inherent in a creature who is half man, half Timex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: The New Season, Part II | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...Clark Kent and Lois Lane will be in bed together unless the director decrees otherwise," promises Godfather Author Mario Puzo, who last week began his newest project, a movie script of Superman. Puzo, whose scripts for Godfather I and Earthquake are expected to gross $225 million for their Hollywood studios, says Superman will bring him a heroic paycheck well into six figures. And how will the leotarded champion of truth, justice and the American way find his own way into the boudoir? "It is a crucial question, but I have figured it out," says Puzo mysteriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 14, 1975 | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

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