Month: December 2025
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Jerry and Joe Episode 7 – Created By…
It's our season finale. When Jerry issues a nine-page press release placing a “curse” on Superman and the upcoming Superman movie, the resulting publicity brings him to New York, where artists Neal Adams and Jerry Robinson launch a public campaign on behalf of Siegel and Shuster that leads to the restoration of their creator credit and a pension.
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Notes on Jerry and Joe – Episode 7
An attempt to catalogue all of the sources for the final episode of "Jerry and Joe"... and a Howard Cosell-related mystery is solved!
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Episode 7 preview
In 1975, after his lawsuit failed and a financial settlement failed to materialize, Jerry Siegel wrote the greatest press release of all time... putting a curse on the Superman film
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Jerry and Joe Episode 6 – I Will Smash Superman
After losing their battle for the rights to Superman, Jerry Siegel's and Joe Shuster's lives began to unravel... and both found themselves separately at the brink of disaster. Joe was reduced to menial jobs and illustrating the fetish zine Nights of Horror, while Jerry lost a plum editorial job, and very nearly got into serious trouble harassing his former bosses. By the end of the 1950s, Jerry eventually found himself writing Superman uncredited.
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Notes on Jerry and Joe – Episode 6
As close to an exhaustive sampling of what went into this episode as we can find... including the telegram from Jerry Siegel to Jack Liebowitz that didn't make it in.
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Episode 6 preview
Siegel and Shuster's next act after Superman was supposed to be Funnyman, which was released in late 1947 with a great deal of hype and a newspaper syndication deal in place... Only, Spoiler Alert: Funnyman wasn't very good.