Some of those exchanges got very heated and at one point, Siegel apparently even threatened to dress up as Superman and jump off of a building. The Superman movie took a number of years of development before it was finally released in 1978, and during those years, Jerry Siegel had taken to writing to DC to protest the treatment that he and Shuster had received regarding Superman. WHAT DID NEAL ADAMS DO TO HELP JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER WIN THEIR CREDIT FOR CREATING SUPERMAN? RELATED: Marvel's Forgotten Spider-Woman Dance Music Video However, they, of course, lost their jobs on the Superman comics. They lost their attempt at getting Superman, but did get enough rights from the Superboy ruling that National settled with them for roughly the equivalent of a million dollars today. Therefore, when the war ended, Siegel and Shuster planned to wait until their contract was out and then sue for the rights to Superman and Superboy. Siegel and Shuster made roughly the equivalent of a million dollars their last year before the war.ĭuring the war, however, Siegel discovered that National had taken an idea he had for a younger version of Superman called Superboy and used it without buying the character from Siegel. However, in reality, Siegel and Kirby were drafted and Simon enlisted in the Coast Guard (only Shuster avoided the military entirely due to his failing eyesight) and things were much different for them when they returned from the war.

There is an interesting 'What If.?' related to what would have happened had World War II never forced most of the young creators in comics into the military and both Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and Jack Kirby and Joe Simon had remained at National Comics, selling millions of copies of Superman and Boy Commandos, respectively. RELATED: Neal Adams Got His Start In Comics In An Unlikely Place - Archie Comics! WHAT WAS THE SITUATION FOR JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER IN 1976, VIS A VIS SUPERMAN?

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