Eventually, National took over and just hired Shuster's assistants themselves, guys like Paul Cassidy and Leo Nowak. Born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerry Siegel was, as a teenager, a fan of the emerging literary genre. And sure enough, Shuster had to soon employ a number of artists to help him with the artwork on their various Superman features (they were doing two comic books, one of them a giant all-Superman anthology series, plus a daily comic strip). Superman author Jerry Siegel during his US Army service in Hawaii circa 1944.

If they then wanted to spend that money to hire other creators, that was their business. The way that National Comics (now DC) treated Superman with regards to Siegel and Shuster is that they acted as if Siegel and Shuster were their own distinct company producing Superman stories that National would then publish upon paying Siegel and Shuster a goodly chunk of money. Looking for books by Jerry Siegel See all books authored by Jerry Siegel, including Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, and The Superman Chronicles, Vol. He could do it) while Joe Shuster could not. However, between the two of them, Siegel could easily keep up with the demand for new Superman stories (well, I'm sure 'easy' is a stretch, but you know what I mean. Creating Superman stories was now by far their number one priority and they were paid quite well for it. Once Superman hit big, though, it changed things a lot.

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