Month: December 2025
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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.