Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me. Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and Shuster’s ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman. All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the comic strip. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture.Īfter 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. 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. Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for $130 in 1938. Contact seller Seller Rating: Book Used - SoftcoverCondition: Good US 5. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creative fiasco. Siegel and Shusters Funnyman : The First Jewish Superhero, from the Creators of Superman Published byFeral House, 2010 ISBN 10: 1932595783ISBN 13: 9781932595789 Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A. Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman.
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