Shuster, Joe
Entry updated 7 April 2025. Tagged: Artist, Comics.
(1914-1992) Canadian-born US Comics artist who with his high-school classmate Jerry Siegel published the early Amateur Magazine or Fanzine Science Fiction (five issues 1932-1933) and famously created the character Superman, whose debut was in Action Comics #1 for June 1938. See Jerry Siegel for more on both creators' long struggle with DC Comics over the rights to Superman.
Shuster was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1991, along with Siegel, and both entered the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993; they jointly received a special committee award from the 2014 Worldcon whose Retro Hugos honoured work published in 1938. The Canadian Joe Shuster Awards for outstanding achievement in comics and Graphic Novels were instituted by the Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association in 2004 and first presented in 2005. [DRL]
see also: New Fun.
Joseph Shuster
born Toronto, Ontario: 10 July 1914
died Los Angeles, California: 30 July 1992
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