Artist/Creator Bio: Jerry Siegel

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel

Jerome Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996),[1] who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter[2][3] and Jerry Ess,[2] was an American writer of superhero comics. His most famous creation was Superman, which he created in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster.

He was inducted (with Shuster posthumously) into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993.

Creation of Superman
Unable to afford college,[8] he worked various delivery jobs, all the while courting publishers. In the summer of 1935, still living in Cleveland, he and Shuster began selling comic-book stories to National Allied Publications, the future DC Comics, in New York.[citation needed]

Siegel and Shuster had been developing Superman since 1933, hoping to sell it as a syndicated newspaper comic-strip. But after years of fruitless soliciting to the syndicates, Siegel and Shuster agreed to publish Superman in a comic book. In March 1938, they sold all rights to Superman to the comic-book publisher Detective Comics, Inc., another forerunner of DC, for $130 ($2,260 when adjusted for inflation).

Siegel and Shuster later regretted their decision to sell Superman after he became an astonishing success. DC Comics now owned the character and reaped the royalties. Nevertheless, DC Comics retained Siegel and Shuster as the principal writer and artist for the Superman comics, and they were well-paid because they were popular with the readers. For instance, in 1942 they together earned $63,776.46 (AFI $955,218).[9] Siegel bought himself a house in University Heights and a car.

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