History Creator / JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster

** ''[[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1 Superman, Champion of the Oppressed]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''[[ComicBook/RevolutionInSanMonte Revolution in San Monte]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet Supergirl's Super Pet]]'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlsThreeSuperGirlfriends Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends]]'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlsGreatestChallenge'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'' (with Jim Mooney)

** ''ComicBook/HowLuthorMetSuperboy'' (with Al Plastino)
** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'' (co-plotted with Edmond Hamilton and drawn by John Forte)

** ''ComicBook/SupermansServiceToServicemen'' (with Wayne Boring and Jack Burnley)

** ''ComicBook/SupermanNumber1'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''ComicBook/TheKMetalFromKrypton'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton'' (with Wayne Boring)
** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman1961'' (with Curt Swan)

* ''World's Finest''

* ''ComicBook/ActionComics''

* ''ComicBook/AdventureComics''

* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlsGreatestChallenge'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet Supergirl's Super Pet]]'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlsThreeSuperGirlfriends Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends]]'' (with Jim Mooney)
** ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'' (with Jim Mooney)

* ''ComicBook/Superman1939''

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'' (co-plotted with Edmond Hamilton and drawn by John Forte)

** ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster'' (with Joe Shuster)

** ''ComicBook/HowLuthorMetSuperboy'' (with Al Plastino)
** ''ComicBook/TheKMetalFromKrypton'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''[[ComicBook/RevolutionInSanMonte Revolution in San Monte]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''[[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1 Superman, Champion of the Oppressed]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''ComicBook/SupermanNumber1'' (with Joe Shuster)
** ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton'' (with Wayne Boring)
** ''ComicBook/SupermansServiceToServicemen'' (with Wayne Boring and Jack Burnley)
* ''ComicBook/Superman1939''

* ''ComicBook/SupermansReturnToKrypton'' (with Wayne Boring)

** ''ComicBook/Superman1939''

!!Notable comic book characters they created:
* '''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'''
** '''[[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]]'''
** '''[[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]]'''
** '''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}''' (the Clark Kent/Kal-El version)
* '''ComicBook/TheSpectre''' (Siegel)
* '''ComicBook/Funnyman1948'''

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!!Works by Jerry Siegel with their own trope pages include:

* ''[[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1 Superman, Champion of the Oppressed]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
* ''[[ComicBook/RevolutionInSanMonte Revolution in San Monte]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
* ''ComicBook/TheBlakelyMineDisaster'' (with Joe Shuster)
* ''[[ComicBook/SupermanNumber1 Superman (Volume 1) #1]]'' (with Joe Shuster)
* ''ComicBook/TheKMetalFromKrypton'' (with Joe Shuster)
* ''ComicBook/SupermansServiceToServicemen'' (with Wayne Boring and Jack Burnley)
* ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman1961'' (with Curt Swan)
* ''ComicBook/HowLuthorMetSuperboy'' (with Al Plastino)
* ''ComicBook/SupergirlsGreatestChallenge'' (with Jim Mooney)
* ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet Supergirl's Super Pet]]'' (with Jim Mooney)
* ''[[ComicBook/SupergirlsThreeSuperGirlfriends Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends]]'' (with Jim Mooney)

* ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'' (co-plotted with Edmond Hamilton and drawn by John Forte)
* ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'' (with Jim Mooney)
* ''ComicBook/TheUnknownSupergirl'' (with Jim Mooney)

* '''ComicBook/{{Funnyman}}'''

[[caption-width-right:350:Shuster on the left, Siegel on the right. And [[Franchise/{{Superman}} some other guy]] in the middle]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Shuster on the left, Siegel on the right.]]

* ''ComicBook/SupergirlsSuperPet'' (with Jim Mooney)

* OriginStory: Siegel wrote Superman and Lex Luthor's first origin stories.

** When he showed up, Superman was the only superhuman around. And he grew more powerful through the 40's.

Siegel wanted to refine the concept of the "Superman" and decided to make him a hero who used his special powers to help mankind instead of conquering them. Thus in 1933, the duo created a comic about the newly heroic character and tried to sell it to various publishers as a newspaper comic strip. Despite all their hard work, they were once more rejected every time. However, hope was not lost.

Siegel wanted to refine the concept of the "Superman" and decided to make him a hero who used his special powers to help mankind instead of conquering them. Thus in 1933, the duo created a comic about the newly heroic character and tried to sell it to various publishers as a newspaper comic strip. Despite all their hard work, they were rejected each time. However, hope was not lost.

* ''[[ComicBook/SupermanNumberOne Superman (Volume 1) #1]]'' (with Joe Shuster)

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Crooked industrialist and war profiteers were one of early Superman's favorite targets.

* ''ComicBook/SupergirlsThreeSuperGirlfriends'' (with Jim Mooney)

Both were young Jewish boys who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio (Jerry was born and raised there, while Joe was born in Toronto, Canada and he and his family moved to Cleveland when he was 9) and they shared a love of science fiction and adventure stories. The two were trying to make ends meet during TheGreatDepression through writing and illustrating short stories and selling them to publishers, but were rejected each time. During that period, Shuster produced a five-issue fanzine called ''Science Fiction: The Advanced Guard for Future Civilization''. There, Siegel and Shuster created a short story titled "The Reign of the Superman", about a mad scientist who grants a vagrant with telepathic abilities through an experimental serum and how the empowered man wished to use his powers to achieve world domination.