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	Jerry Siegel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, Siegel was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of six children.
		Siegel was a shy, not particularly popular student, but he achieved a bit of fame among his peers for his popular Tarzan parody, "Goober the Mighty".
		Siegel declined, and the story was instead given to writer Alan Moore, and published in September 1986 in two parts (Superman #423 and Action Comics #583).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Siegel (540 words)

	The Comics Journal: Newswatch
		Meanwhile, the Siegels followed the Superman termination with a 2002 notice that they were terminating Jerry Siegel's copyright assignment to DC of Superboy and related comics and stories as of November 2004.
		Siegel had worked again on Superman as an uncredited writer from 1959 until the mid '60s, but in a 1962 letter to Shuster he complained that he was being paid a fraction of his former page rate and had to endure "scorn, belittlement and hot-tempered abuse" from DC editor Mort Weisinger.
		Siegel sent out a press release that was reminiscent of the way his Superman used to verbally chastise hoodlums and fat-cat swindlers in the early comics.
	www.tcj.com /263/n_marketable.html (1645 words)

	Comic creator: Jerry Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jerry Siegel is the father of Superman - the superhero that made comics great and inspired a whole new generation of supernaturally endowed characters.
		Jerry Siegel entered into a long and nasty legal fight with National over the rights to his character.
		None of Siegel's other creations, such as 'Funnyman', 'Reggie van Twerp', 'Ken Winston' and 'Tallulah', was ever successful in the long run, which he claimed to be due to his being fl-balled from the comic industry.
	www.lambiek.net /siegel.htm (308 words)

	Jerry Siegel
		Born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerome Siegel was, as a teenager, a fan of the merging literary genre that came to be known as science fiction.
		Siegel scripted and Shuster drew several weeks' worth of newspaper strips featuring their new creation, but garnered no interest from publishers or newspaper syndicates.
		Siegel wrote the adventures of Superman (as well as other DC heroes, most notably the Spectre, his co-creation with Bernard Bailey) through 1948.
	theages.superman.ws /Creators/siegelBio.php (285 words)

	Spy: The Golden Age Comic Book series
		Siegel thinks deeply in terms of plot: nearly everything that happens here is at a plot level, and moves a complex story forward.
		Siegel shows some unusual approaches to detection here, which he uses both for humor, and their intellectual appeal as part of detective technique.
		Siegel was also fascinated by the technological possibilities of radio, and its shows up in that aspect in many of his early stories.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/spy.htm (3161 words)

	Superman Super Site.com - Jerry Siegel
		Jerry Siegel was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 17, 1914.
		Though they courts deemed that DC was not bound to any remuneration toward the pair, DC did decide (with prodding from publisher/editor Carmine Infantino) to give them $35,000 each a year for the rest of their lives.
		Jerry Siegel is without question one of the most important figures in comic history.
	www.supermansupersite.com /siegel.html (743 words)

	Who Is Superman?
		Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster did get exposure from their stories, though, and a character named Slam Bradley became their primary means of employment.
		Siegel’s wife, Joanne, who was the inspiration for Lois Lane, went to DC Comics’; president and explained their situation.
		In an interesting development, in 1999, the heirs of Jerry Siegel, his wife Joanne and his daughter, Laura, were granted judgment to retain 50% ownership of the copyright of Superman.
	www.smallvillevirtuality.com /superthoughts/whois.htm (1270 words)

	Sunny Boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the depths of winter, Siegel set the bank of panels at an angle of 58 degrees; by June 21, when the sun is as high as it gets, he'll have reduced the angle to 11 degrees.
		Siegel estimates that he could increase his output by 40 percent if the panels tracked the sun as it moved across the sky.
		Siegel's wife, Donna, is senior community director of the Southern California chapter of March of Dimes.
	www.vvdailypress.com /2001-2003/103838400032780.html (1401 words)

	Siegel, Shuster, and Superman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jerry grew up loving science fiction, he always knew he wanted to be a science fiction writer.
		In the third issue, Siegel used the pseudonym Herbert S. Fine (a mix of cousins name with his mothers maiden name) and wrote a story titled "Reign of the Superman", in it was a villain with super powers.
		Jerry Siegel and his family were broke, their economic status had gotten so bad that Siegels wife Joanne, visited Jack Liebowitz at DC and told them how bad things were.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8580/super.html (2422 words)

	Superman Co-Creator Jerry Siegel Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Siegel was born in Cleveland in 1917 and met the Canadian-born Shuster in high school there.
		Under pressure from new corporate parent Warner Communications, DC relented: Siegel and Shuster's creator credit was restored to the Superman feature and each man was granted a yearly stipend, originally reported to be $20,000 per year each, and reportedly much higher by the time of their deaths.
		Jerry was as good and as noble a creature as his creation, Superman," according to Siegel's friend, writer and comics fan Harlan Ellison.
	theages.superman.ws /Creators/wizard.php (1247 words)

	Jerry Siegel biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jerome (Jerry) Siegel (October 17, 1914 - January 28, 1996) was the co-creator of Superman, the first of the great comic book heroes and one of the most recognizable fictional characters from the 20th century.
		In 1946 the pair had a contract dispute with DC over rights to Superman, and after a two-year fight relinquished claim to the character in return for about $200,000.
		Siegel became comic art director for Ziff-Davis Company in the 1950s but eventually left the business.
	jerry-siegel.biography.ms (381 words)

	NEWSARAMA
		As mentioned yesterday, Joanne Siegel and Laura Siegel Larson, widow and daughter of the late Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel filed a complaint in US District Court against DC Comics, Time Warner, Warner Brothers Entertainment, and Warner Brothers Television in regards to the rights to Superboy.
		As such, the Siegels ask for an injunction while the action is pending, in order to prevent DC from continuing to use and exploit the character of Superboy.
		DC’s response to the Siegel’s Superboy complaint follows roughly along the same lines as their response to the Superman complaint (in fact, the counterclaim filed by DC is identical to the counterclaim filed in the Superman matter).
	www.newsarama.com /DC/Superman/SuperboyCompl.htm (1714 words)

	Superman: The Complete History (Creation) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both born in 1914, first met around 1931 when they were students at Glenville High School in Cleveland.
		Shuster, a native of Toronto, had recently moved into the neighborhood, and Siegel sought him out after hearing that the new arrival was an artist.
		Jerry's after-school job as a delivery boy brought in four dollars a week to help keep his family afloat.
	www.dccomics.com /features/sm60/1.htm (625 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Writer's Biographies - Jerry Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jerome Siegel is one of the most important figures in the development and creation of costumed comic heroes.
		Jerome Siegel was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 17, 1914.
		With the advent of comic collecting becoming a national hobby, and the proliferation of comic conventions starting in 1968, Siegel and Shuster again regained the public eye and in 1975, the two once again sued DC for royalties to Superman.
	www.comic-art.com /bios-1/siegel01.htm (862 words)

	TMe:DC Comics stands to lose half the rights to Superman
		Superman was created by Siegel and Shuster in the early '30s and went through a number of incarnations before the two finally sold the character to DC Comics (then Detective Comics) in 1938 for a reported $130, which included the copyright and a contract to supply DC with future Superman stories.
		Siegel and Shuster made a good living as comic creators in the early '40s, but were increasingly convinced that DC owed them more money, as the publisher had fully exploited the character and spinoffs such as Superboy and Starman, and was making millions on Superman comics and other merchandise.
		Siegel and Shuster sued DC in 1948 over issues related to Superboy, and DC settled with the creators for a reported $120,000 apiece, less than two years' salary for the two at the time.
	www.teako170.com /superman.html (2326 words)

	Technique in the Silver Age Comic Book
		Siegel's political stories were the model for most social commentary to come in the comic books.
		Siegel is one of the major figures in modern culture.
		Siegel was also the author of the humorous "Tales of the Bizarro World" series that ran in Adventure Comics for 15 issues from #285 (June 1961) to #299 (August 1962), although he was not the original creator of the Bizarros or their planet - Otto Binder did that.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/techniqu.htm (11300 words)

	The history of Superman
		Jerry Siegel was an aspiring writer living in Cleveland, Ohio and best friend to Joe Shuster, himself an aspiring artist.
		Siegel and Shuster carried their creation all over but could not find a newspaper interested enough to publish it.
		Siegel and Shuster excitedly re-purposed their newspaper strips into comic book form and in June of 1938 Action Comics #1 was issued, introducing the world to Superman.
	me.essortment.com /supermanhistory_ryql.htm (941 words)

	Superman: The Avenging Father Figure
		Jerry Siegel created Superman when he was in his late teens, a time when a person's limitations are keenly felt in contrast to his powers.
		Siegel may have felt the helplessness that results from that power gap more than others.
		Siegel's creation of the original superhero didn't provide him the kind of catharsis and pleasure he brought to so many others, until very late in his life.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0205superman05side.html (377 words)

	NEWSARAMA
		In October of last year, Newsarama reported that the battle for the rights to Superman had once again heated up, as Joanne Siegel (widow of Superman co-creator, Jerry Siegel), and Laura Siegel Larson (daughter of Jerry) had filed the appropriate paperwork for the termination of the transfer of copyright to Superboy.
		Siegel and Superman co-creator Joe Shuster had transferred the copyright to National Periodical Publications (later, DC Comics) in 1938.
		According to the complaint, the Siegels estimate that their share of the monies generated by the Superman rights since the effective date of the termination are in excess of $40 million.
	www.newsarama.com /DC/Superman/Intro.htm (1251 words)

	On The Media- Men of Tomorrow
		And one of those was Jerry Siegel who was growing up in kind of a middle class suburb of Cleveland.
		GERARD JONES: As the story's normally been told, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were naive kids who didn't know their rights, who sold them away to Donnenfeld and Leibowitz and were treated coldly and cruelly thereafter.
		Jerry by the age of 60 was working at the Public Utilities Commission as a mail clerk, scrabbling for occasional comic book freelance work.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_020405_tomorrow.html (970 words)

	Werewolf.com Discussion Boards - Could we lose the Superman we know?
		Reportedly, the Siegels were in negotiation with DC in regards to the rights, and those negotiations were never settled, and the rights to Superman are still in dispute.
		While the court agreed with Siegel and Shuster, the creators sold the rights to the character back to DC for $100,000 (given that the court ruled Siegel to be the creator, the sale was in fact, a transfer of the copyright).
		Remember — the Siegels had filed to terminate the transfer of copyright for Jerry Siegel’s portion of the rights, that is ½ of the rights to Superman, leaving DC with half.
	www.werewolf.com /vb/showthread.php?t=6950 (1095 words)

	Siegel, Jerry -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Jerry Lee Lewis was born in 1935 in Ferriday, La. Lewis's earliest influence was country music, but with the popularity of Elvis Presley in the 1950s, he too became a rock 'n' roller.
		Falwell, Jerry L. (born 1933), U.S. clergyman and political lobbyist.
		Jerry Falwell was born on Aug. 11, 1933, in Lynchburg, Va. In 1956 Falwell founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9113370?tocId=9113370 (586 words)

	Aka Superman Screen Captures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Siegel’s passions for science fiction inspired him to write his own magazine, Cosmic Stories, whom he typed and sold it by mail in 1929 (under his Fantastic Fiction Publishing Company.) His magazine Cosmic Stories was the first science fiction “fanzine”.
		Siegel also had his own alter egos; many of his early writings were under pen names such as Hugh Langley and Bernard J. Kenton.
		Siegel suggested a triangle with a big red “S” in the middle would be like a trademark, that way everyone would remember that they created Superman.
	www.geocities.com /carrielu1222/history.html (3090 words)

	The Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Interview - Part 0 of 10
		Almost as famous as elements of the Siegel and Shuster saga, and the Superman oeuvre itself, is the legendary reticence of the two creators to grant interviews.
		We are fortunate to have historian Tom Andrae's history-making, and history-breaking, transcript of conversations with Siegel and Shuster.
		The interview with Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Siegel's wife Joanne was conducted by Tom Andrae, Geoffry Blum, and Gary Coddington.
	superman.ws /seventy/interview (428 words)

	Superman: The Complete History (Explosion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		One way Siegel and Shuster reached out to the audience was by dealing with the social problems of the day.
		Siegel and Shuster had the opportunity to improve on this sketchy scenario in just a few months, when they realized their dream of seeing Superman appear in a nationally syndicated newspaper strip.
		The McClure Syndicate was the country's oldest, and by 1941 it had placed Siegel and Shuster's strip in hundreds of newspapers with a readership estimated at more than 20 million.
	www.dccomics.com /features/sm60/2.htm (669 words)

	Superman Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The character, who was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for National Comics (today DC Comics), subsequently appeared in various radio serials, television programs, and films.
		Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster not as a hero, but as a villain.
		On the Seinfeld TV show, a Superman statue sat on the stereo in Jerry's livingroom, and a Superman refrigerator magnet was always visible in his kitchen.
	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Superman (11484 words)

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