Joe Shuster

ByKaren Posted on Updated on Art Gallery

16 albums/168 artworks – Joe Shuster (1914 – 1992) was born in Toronto, Canada. At the age of nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he would later meet Jerome Siegel, with whom he would become a creative partner. Siegel and Shuster created a hero character which later became famous as Superman. The story on Joe Shuster is a sad and shameful tale. He drew that big read S, made comic history and never received anything amounting to even a tiny percentage of the financial rewards his character should have given him. It led him towards drawing fetish artworks for the magazine Titled Nights of Horror.Nights of Horror is an American series of fetish comic books, created in 1954 by publisher Malcla.…

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