Clark Kent is a fictional character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

* Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster also fashioned a short-lived superhero title, Funnyman, taking inspiration from Kaye's public persona.

He contributed to both of the first science fiction fanzines, The Time Traveller, and the Science Fiction Magazine, published and edited by Shuster & Siegel of Superman fame, in 1932, and by 1933 had 127 correspondents around the world.

Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he first appeared in Action Comics # 23 ( April 1940 ).

By some accounts, the seeds for Luthor's character first appeared in The Reign of the Super-Man, also written by Siegel and Shuster.

The planet was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and was first referred to in Action Comics # 1 ( June 1938 ); the planet was given its first full-fledged appearance in Superman # 1 ( Summer 1939 ).

Joe Shuster, who together with Jerry Siegel created the fictional superhero Superman, in 1938 burned the first Superman story when under the impression that it would not find a publisher.

Neal Adams ( born June 15, 1941 ) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow ; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates ; and as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Though Joe Shuster supplied the art, the Superboy feature was published without the input or approval of Jerry Siegel, who was serving in World War II.

This fact increased an already-growing rift between the publisher and Siegel and Shuster.

Jerome " Jerry " Siegel ( October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996 ), who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine, was the American co-creator of Superman ( along with Joe Shuster ), the first of the great comic book superheroes and one of the most recognizable of the 20th century.

Siegel described his friendship with the similarly shy and bespectacled Shuster:

Siegel and Shuster created a bald telepathic villain named " The Superman ," bent on dominating the entire world.

Siegel and Shuster then began a six-year quest to find a publisher.

Titling it The Superman, Siegel and Shuster offered it to Consolidated Book Publishing, who had published a 48-page black-and-white comic book entitled Detective Dan: Secret Operative No. 48.

Shuster took this to heart and burned all pages of the story, the cover surviving only because Siegel rescued it from the fire.

Siegel and Shuster each compared this character to Slam Bradley, an adventurer the pair had created for Detective Comics # 1 ( March 1937 ).

The following year, Siegel & Shuster initiated the syndicated Superman comic strip.

As part of the deal which saw Superman published in Action Comics, Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to the company in return for $ 130 and a contract to supply the publisher with material.

In 1946, Siegel and Shuster, nearing the end of their 10-year contract to produce Superman stories, sued National over rights to the characters.

Siegel in 1975 launched a public-relations campaign to protest DC Comics ' treatment of Shuster and him.

Ultimately, Warner Communications, DC's parent company, awarded Siegel and Shuster $ 20, 000 a year each for the rest of their lives and guaranteed that all comics, TV episodes, films, and, later, video games starring Superman would be required to carry the credit that Superman was " created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

A number of critics thought Eastwood's directing was " as derivative as it was expressive ", with Arthur Knight of the Saturday Review remarking that Eastwood had " absorbed the approaches of Siegel and Leone and fused them with his own paranoid vision of society ".

In 1944, Siegel married Martha Baird ( University of Iowa ), who had begun studying in his classes the year before.

At the age of 76, Siegel had an operation for a benign prostatic condition.

Siegel had originally shot Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the 1. 85: 1 aspect ratio.

While the Internet Movie Database states that the film's original ending had been reinstated for a re-release in 1979, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique magazine claims that the film is still being released with its additional footage, including a screening at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2005, honouring director Don Siegel.

Siegel later estimated that Totten had spent 25 days filming, while he himself had spent 9-10 days.

In killing Schuster, Anastasia had violated a cardinal Mafia rule against killing outsiders ; as Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel once quaintly put it, " We only kill each other.

Lansky said in several interviews later in his life that if it had been up to him, "... Ben Siegel would be alive today.

Largely headed by former mob enforcers Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel and Meyer Lansky, it also had members from Buchalter's labor-slugging gang ( in partnership with Tommy " Three-Fingered Brown " Lucchese ) as well as from another group of enforcers from Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, of the late 1920s led by Martin " Buggsy " Goldstein and Abe " Kid Twist " Reles, based out of an unassuming candy store known as Midnight Rose's.

They claim that the parents of the first cloned child had second thoughts about submitting their child to scientific tests after attorney Bernard Siegel filed suit .< noinclude > According to sealed court documents received by the Boston Globe which were reported on 27 April 2003, Clonaid had two employees but no address or board of directors.

" Looking back on the 1971 Don Siegel film, he remembered, " rewrites had changed everything.

One evening Eastwood and Siegel had been watching the San Francisco 49ers in the Kezar Stadium in the last game of the season and thought the eerie Greek amphitheater-like setting would be an excellent location for shooting one of the scenes where Callahan encounters the psychopathic killer Scorpio.

The soundtrack for Dirty Harry was created by composer Lalo Schifrin famous for the Mission: Impossible theme and soundtrack, who had previously collaborated with director Don Siegel in the production of Coogan's Bluff and The Beguiled, both also starring Clint Eastwood.

Director Don Siegel noted that he cast Robinson because he had the face of " a choir boy.

On April 27, 2000, Siegel took over the program which at this time had an estimated 22 million listeners.

Bell noted that since his departure the show had lost a number of affiliates, commercial content had risen to an unbearable level, and Siegel had taken the program in a " different direction " of which Bell disapproved.

Siegel maintained the format of the show that Bell had created, but his personal style was very different, and the show became less popular.

Shortly before Christmas 2002, composer Ralph Siegel asked her if she would be interested in competing in the national finals again with a song he had written with lyricist Bernd Meinunger.

Don Siegel had originally been hired as director of the earlier 1946 version of the same story, but had been fired.