They spent years on the breadline before Warner, the Superman filmmaker and then comic’s owner, agreed in the 1970s to give them a pension. Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to Superman for $130 in 1938. It was very hard because the publishing houses were ruthless for these young and sometimes naive creators.” He adds: “I am not saying it was easy for them. “You don’t need a lot of technology to make a comic, just a pen and a good story,” he says.
The exhibition’s curator, Bruno Benvindo, believes firstand second-generation Jewish immigrants to the US were drawn to comics, partly because of low barriers to entry. At the time, few knew that the creators of Superman, the scenarist Jerry Siegel and the draughtsman Joe Shuster, were children of Jewish immigrants.Īn exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels is tracing the Jewish backgrounds of the US’s best-known superheroes, including Superman, Batman and Captain America. The cartoon strip How Superman Would End the War appeared in Look Magazine, almost two years before the US entered the conflict against Nazi Germany as allies of the Soviet Union.
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