On the new podcast The Comics Code, host Graeme Burk busts the myth about the creation of Superman in 1934. Comics fans have been told time after time the story that Cleveland teenager Jerry Siegel was hit by the sudden inspiration late one night, and ran the final script of Superman as we know him to his artist friend from high school Joe Shuster to draw the following morning. And the man from Krypton, disguised on Earth as mild-mannered Clark Kent, was born.

But drawing from various sources, including Siegel's own unpublished memoir, Burk reveals a much more complicated story, with various different versions of Superman evolving, written by Siegel but drawn by different artists, until the version we all know, drawn by Shuster, was finalized in 1934 and published in 1938 in Action Comics

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