1930's Media | Action Comics No. 1

Comic book

By: Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster

Date: June 1938

Source: Siegel, Jerome, and Joe Shuster. Action Comics No. 1, June, 1938, cover, 1. Available online at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/actioncomics/cover.h... ; website home page: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/home.html (accessed March 13, 2003).

About the Authors: High-school classmates Jerry Siegel (1915–1996) and Joe Shuster (1914–1996), in a period of only a few years, went from scribbling comic strips after homework to creating arguably the most famous comic book character of all time, Superman. Siegel wrote the stories and Shuster drew them. In 1934, just out of high school in Cleveland, Ohio, the pair finalized the Superman serial and began...