Jerry Siegel
| Jerry Siegel | |
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Siegel in 1943
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| Born | Jerome Siegel October 17, 1914 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | January 28, 1996 (aged 81) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Pseudonym(s) | Joe Carter, Jerry Ess |
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Notable works
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Superman, Action Comics #1 |
| Awards |
Inkpot Award, 1975 Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, 1992 Jack Kirby Hall of Fame, 1993 The Bill Finger Award For Excellence in Comic Book Writing, 2005 |
| Spouse(s) |
Bella Siegel (m. 1939–48) Joanne Siegel (m. 1948) |
| Children | 2 |
Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (/ˈsiːɡəl/; October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996), who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, and Jerry Ess, was the American co-creator, along with Joe Shuster, of Superman, the first of the great comic book superheroes and one of the most recognizable of the 20th century.
He was inducted (with Shuster posthumously) into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993.
Siegel was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of six children of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, a part which later became Lithuania, Sarah (née Fine) and Mitchell Siegel (né Mikhel Segalovich). He was preceded by sisters Minerva and Roslyn, both in Lithuania, brothers Harry and Leo, and sister Isabel. His father was a sign painter who opened a haberdashery and encouraged his son's artistic inclinations. Mitchell died of a heart attack brought on by the robbery of his store, when Jerry was in junior high school. Siegel was a fan of movies, comic strips, and especially science fiction pulp magazines. He became active in what would become known as fandom, corresponding with other science fiction fans, including the young future author Jack Williamson. In 1929, Siegel published what might have been the first SF fanzine, Cosmic Stories, which he produced with a manual typewriter and advertised in the classified section of Science Wonder Stories. He published several other booklets over the next few years.
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