![]() ![]() All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the comic strip. It also describes how the invention of Superman might have been inspired by a Jewish vaudeville strongman from the 1920s named Siegmund Breitbart, who was billed as a "Superman of Strength. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. The video above consists of interviews with Mel Gordon and Thomas Andrae, the co-authors of Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero from the Creators of Superman. ![]() You can read all about it in Craig Yoe's book, Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster.) (Joe Shuster went on to illustrate seedy little bondage booklets, barely scratching out a living. Buy eBook Siegel and Shusters Funnyman by Andrae, Thomas/Gordon, Mel/Siegel, Jerry published by Feral House Inc. The other is Funnyman, and this book details his amazing back story. Siegel and Shuster tried to keep it going as a newspaper strip, but gave up after a year. Siegel and Shuster’s Funnyman The First Jewish Superhero from the Creators of Superman By Thomas Andrae & Mel Gordon Preface By Danny Fingeroth Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created two superheroes. It ran for six issues and went out of business. He was a dead ringer for Danny Kaye, one of my favorite comedians. ![]() ![]() Feral House has a great new book coming out about Funnyman, an unusual and short-lived comic book series created by Superman's Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.įunnyman was a clown-like superhero who used gags, pranks and Yiddishisms to defeat his humor-deficient enemies. ![]()
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