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A new court ruling has awarded the heirs of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel the rights to more stories than the previous original Action Comics #1 appearance. Does this increase the possibility of DC Comics losing control of the character? More »
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Despite Warner's legal victory against the family of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel over the character's copyright, the legal future of Clark Kent seems even more complicated than ever - leading the court to appoint an expert to explain it all. More »
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Superman's powers include super-strength, super-breath... and super-lawyers? The iconic DC Comics character has been known to go after plenty of other strongmen in court, crushing any characters with more than a passing similarity. The most famous super-litigation was the 1951 case where the Man Of Steel killed Captain Marvel, the Superman-esque character who gets his powers from saying "Shazam!" But the world's most litigious hero has gone after plenty of other peers, and here's our history of super-lawsuits. More »
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As anyone who's heard Brad Meltzer talk about his new novel The Book Of Lies knows, he's a subscriber to the theory that Superman's creation in 1938 was a subconscious reaction to co-creator Jerry Siegel's father dying after being shot in a store hold-up. While it's a wonderful story — the death of Siegel's father led him to create a bulletproof hero who stopped crimes - it also happens not to be true, according to another Superman scholar. More »
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We may have come to know Superman as the Last Son of Krypton, but if Jerry Siegel's other choice for artist had agreed to work on the character, then his origin would have been more than a little bit different... and he would have become the Last Son of Earth. Under the jump, find out more about the Superman that we very nearly came to know and love. More »
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Click to viewToday, fans may refer to the first decade of the Man of Steel's existence as his Golden Age, but back in those days, editors at DC didn't feel the same way. In fact, recently-released documents from that era show that they thought that Superman seemed a little too gay for their liking. Oh, and Lois should have an abortion so that her breasts can go down a size or two, as well. More »
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DC Comics' familiar red, yellow and blue-clad Superman may be 70 years old this year, but that doesn't mean that his creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster weren't thinking about their ubermensch before 1938. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet Archive, now everyone can read their little-seen, very different, earlier attempt at a character calling himself The Superman. More »
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