It was 1938 and Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were offered a $130 check and a 10-year contract to produce a syndicated newspaper comic version of their Superman character. The Glenville High School classmates snapped it up faster than kryptonite saps Superman’s super powers.
The superhero character earned the new owner, National Allied Publications, a corporate predecessor of DC Comics, huge profits from comic books and cartoon strips. But business wannabes Siegel and Shuster were forced to sue for fame and fortune because of their hasty decision. Today, the fight to recognize Superman’s origins has been taken up the Siegel and Schuster Society.
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