Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman.
It was four more years before they convinced a publisher to take.
In 1934, the summer they graduated from high school, they created a superhero who was everything they were not.
Jerry wrote his own original stories and Joe illustrated them.
Both Boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales.
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman