Joe Shuster

The date of original airing was November 12th, 2010.

The character of Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and Smallville was created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Our writers this week are Andrew Landis and Julius Swift.

Director for this episode is Kevin Fair.

The story I want to begin with is the very Jewish story of Superman, who stood for truth, justice, and the American way.

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the children of Jewish immigrants fleeing the pogroms, created Superman in 1932 in Cleveland when they were both in high school.

Their parents changed their names from Segalevich to Shuster, which likely to fit in to get a job.

The story of Superman is the quintessential story of the Jewish American experience in the early to mid-1900s.

It's kind of an earworm, so you're going to be seeing it for the rest of the day.

Action comics, Siegel, Shuster, Kenton, Krypton's fall.

Men are steel, bulletproof, leaping buildings that are tall.

Lois Lane, Daily Planet, Jimmy's snapping pics.

But Jerry Siegel is, of course, the co-creator of Superman.

Back in 1935, he and his school friend Joe Shuster drew up and wrote up the idea of this guy with superpowers who pretends to be a bit of a nebbish and the woman Lois Lane who loves the one and hates the other.

And that little love triangle became the concept that they wrote up into newspaper strips and because writing comics for the newspapers was a huge way to make money in the 30s, and eventually they were able to sell it to the young comic book publishing company, National Publications, and eventually also got him sold as a comic strip for the newspapers.

Jerry Siegel has had ups and downs with National slash DC by this time, and he's only relatively recently come back to write for them.

The date of original airing was October 1, 2010.

The character Superman was created by Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster, and Smallville was created by Alfred Goff and Miles Miller.

Our writer is this week, Jordan Hawley.

The director of the episode is Glenn Winter.

And I'm going to get your reactions to it after we listen to it.

Action comics, Siegel, Shuster, Kenton, Krypton's fall.

Men of steel, bulletproof, leaping buildings that are tall.

Lois Lane, Daily Planet, Jimmy's snapping pics.

Adam West, actor.

And anyone connected with this so-called drama documentary based upon the character, quote, Superman, unquote, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and appearing in comic magazines published by DC Comics Incorporated.

You must have something.

of the writer Dirk Mads and the producer Neil Cargill.

[laughs] Yikes.

Superman was created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and he first appeared in Action Comics #1.

And he is one of the three leading characters of DC Comics.

Obviously, the other two are Wonder Woman and Batman.