Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman

Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman Review

This book aspires to show the cultural influences that shaped Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman comic. It succeeds and then some. It also shows the forces behind the creation of Superman and the struggle Siegel and Shuster went through to create their visions. The essays are well written, insightful, original and enlightening and the graphics are AMAZING! This is a great book for any Superman fan or Judaica and vaudeville history buff.

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Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman Overview

Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a  little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creative fiasco.

Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for 0 in 1938. Not only did they lose the ownership of the Superman character, they also agreed to write and illustrate it for ten years at ten dollars per page. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture.

After toiling on workman’s wages for a decade, Siegel and Shuster struggled to come up with a new superhero, one that would right their wrongs and prove that justice, fair-play, and zany craftsmanship was the true American way and would lead to ultimate victory. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the comic strip.

This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and Shuster’s ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman.

Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.

Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me.

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