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Gr 4-6 Nobleman portrays teenaged Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster as outcasts who found solace in the world of pulp magazines and comics. Their peers did not understand their fascination with tales of musclemen and detectives with gadgets, and their teachers deemed the stories that they loved to write and illustrate "trash." Despite these obstacles, the two friends continued writing and illustrating, and in 1934, Siegel had an avalanche of ideas about a new type of hero that he then shared with Shuster, who drew the first concept illu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Faster than a bionic pencil, more powerful than the disdainful looks of their high school classmates, able to think of a plot line in a red-hot moment...it's Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman! Missing his father, who died during a robbery, and trying to survive the Great Depression, young Jerry buries himself in the lives of Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and other characters of pulp fiction and comic strips. Short, shy,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jerry Siegel imagines and writes about a hero, an alien with incredible strength whose secret identity is an ordinary guy. Jerry's look...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Judging by the number of children who wear Superman costumes on Halloween, Superman’s popularity remains enormous even seventy years after his debut. So his creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, are a natural choice for a children’s biography. In this fast-paced, exciting, and carefully researched picture book, Marc Tyler Nobleman focuses on what inspired these two shy teens in depression-era Cleveland to create a comic strip, their search for a publisher, and their triumph of ign...Log In or Sign Up to Read More