The Thunder Child

Science Fiction and Fantasy
Web Magazine and Sourcebooks

Art
Authors
Books
Games
Magazines
Movies
Radio Drama
Television
Theatre
Science Faction

The Timelash:
Superman
"Stand By For Mars!"
The Timelash:
Superman

Recommended Reading


Learn more or
Buy Now


Learn more or
Buy Now


Learn more or
Buy Now


Learn more or
Buy Now

 Chronology of Superheroes

Superman
Compiled by Caroline Miniscule

A day-to-day listing of the creation of Superman, and his evolution within the various media.

This timeline is under construction.

Google
 
Web thethunderchild.com

1914-1949

[1914-1949]

[1950-1989]

[1990-onward]

Note on chronology:
  • If month and date are not known, entry is put at the front of the appropriate year.
  • If month but not date is known, entry will be put at front of appropriate month. If only a season is known (as in quarterly comic publications), it is put at the beginning of the year.
  • Bi-monthly issues (ex. November-December) are put at the beginning of the first month listed.

    The source listed in the Event box is the first source from which I found the information while compiling this database. Any sources that confirm or contradict this are listed in the notes section.

    [Currently articles from Wikipedia will be cited, although since this "free encyclopedia" has no controls over who inputs data, and does not require that contributors identify themselves by name, all its information on anything must be doublechecked for accuracy.]

    Year Day Event Notes
    1914 July 10 Joe Shuster
    born in Toronto, Canada.

    Source: Wikipedia article on Joe Shuster.

    		.
    1914 October 17 Jerry Siegel
    born in Cleveland, Ohio.

    Source: Wikipedia article on Jerry Siegel.

    		.
    . . . .
    1930 . Walter Dennis
    science fiction fan and newspaper man, sends his photo to Jerry Siegel. Because of his short hair and horn-rimmed glasses, author Les Daniels postulates he may have been the model for Clark Kent.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 19.

    		.
    . . . .
    1932 September Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger
    publish a fanzine called Science Fiction Digest. Jerry Siegel was one of their first subscribers.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 12.

    		.
    1932 October First issue of Science Fiction
    a science fiction fanzine published by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, is published.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 12.

    		.
    . . . .
    1933 . M. C. Gaines
    a salesman for New York's Eastern Color Printing, (who also works in other comic-related businesses)figures out how to fold down sheets of newspaper into "pamphlets" to create the first comic book.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 17.

    		.
    1933 . Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
    publish the last issue of their fanzine Science Fiction..

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 15.

    		.
    1933 August 23 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
    had submitted The Superman to Consolidated Book Publishers, publishers of Detective Dan, Secret Operative #48, a comic book. On this date they received a reply. If there was a second issue, Consolidated Book Publishers will publish the story. There was no 2nd issue.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 17.

    		.
    1933 September The character of Dan Dunn (from Detective Dan) appears in a comic strip and will run for ten years. Consolidated will leave the comic book business.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 12.

    		.
    . . . .
    1934 . Jerry Siegel
    Late in this year, in "an oft-repeated tale," Siegel is kept awake one night thinking of a third take on the Superman character, and will go visit Joe Shuster the next morning with his new ideas.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 18.

    		Jim Steranko quotes Siegel extensively about this in Steranko's History of Comics, but describes it as taking place "on a sweltering summer night in 1933."
    1934 . Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel
    send a query to the editor of Super Magazines, Inc., but no sale of the Superman concept results.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 22.

    		.
    . . . .
    1935 February Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
    running National Allied Publishing, brings out his first comic book, New Fun It was the first appearance of a regularly published comic book featuring all-original material. [National will eventually metamorphisize into DC Comics.]

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 23.

    		.
    1935 October The character of Henri Duval, Famesd Soldier of Fortune, created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, makes his debut in New Fun #6. Another of their characters, "Dr. Occult, the Ghost Detective" also makes his debut.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 23.

    		.
    1935 October 4 Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
    had offered "Superman" to Major Wheeler-Nicholson. On this day they receive a letter from him that he has "pending deals" and would publish Superman around the first of the year. They turn him down, due to belief in his shaky financial situation.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 25.

    		.
    . . . .
    1936 . Jerry Siegel
    approaches M. C. Gaines to see if he'd like to publish Superman. Gaines refuses.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 26.

    		.
    1936 January Major Wheeler-Nicholson
    brings out the second issue of New Comics. In it is Shuster and Siegel's "Federal Men," featuring character Steve Carson

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 25.

    		.
    1936 October Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel
    write "Dr. Occult" under the pseudonyms Leger and Reuths. In this issue, they give Occult immense strength, the power of flight, a blue costume and a red cape, in More Fun Comics #14. He will retain these powers and costume for two more issues.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 25.

    		.
    . . . .
    1937 January "Federal Men"
    created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel has become a staple of New Comics. In this issue, the story is titled "Federal Men of Tomorrow," and features a science fiction concept. One of the characters is named Jor-L.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 25.

    		.
    1937 February 18 Jerry Siegel
    approaches Tip Top Comics to see if they'll publish Superman. On this day he receives a rejection letter, calling it an "immature piece of work."

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 26.

    		.
    1937 March The first issue of Detective Comics hits the stands.
    In it, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creation "Slam Bradley" will make his debut. In order to publish the comic, Wheeler-Nicholson has gone into partnership with his distributors, Harry Donenfeld and Jack Leibowitz.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 12, 26.

    		.
    1937 November 30 M. C. Gaines
    works for many different companies. He is associated with Eastern Color Printing (which prints the Wheeler-Nicholson books) and he is also involved with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. He solicits work from Shuster and Siegel, and they send him Superman.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 26, 30.

    		.
    . . . .
    1938 January 10 Vin Sullivan
    editor of Detective Comics and the proposed new Action Comics, writes to Siegel. Of the several features Shuster had submitted, Sullivan informs him he likes Superman best .

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 30.

    		.
    1938 February 1 Vin Sullivan
    editor of Detective Comics and the proposed new Action Comics, returns the daily strips to Siegel, requesting that they be pasted together in comic book form. He wants 13 pages (comprising several different stories) .

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 30.

    		.
    1938 February 4 Vin Sullivan
    sends a letter to Shuster and Siegel regarding Superman, urging them to "shoot the works, pronto!" He wants to see the 13 pages within three weeks.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 30.

    		.
    1938 February 22 Vin Sullivan sends a letter to Shuster and Siegel informing them that the cover of Action Comics #1 will use a panel drawing of Superman as sugged by Siegel.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 30.

    		.
    1938 June Action Comics #1 hits the newstands, marking the debut of Superman.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 30.

    		.
    . . . .
    1939 . The New York World's Fair (opening April 30, 1939 after many years of planning) is such a success that it spawns a comic book. Superman appears in cameo on the cover, and has a story inside.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 47.

    		.
    1939 January 16 Superman makes his debut as a daily comic strip, thanks to M. C. Gaines and the McClure Syndicate.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 37.

    		.
    1939 March 27 M. C. Gaines writes to Jerry Siegel with instructions as to what is wanted from them for the first issue of Superman's own comic book. There is to be two introductory pages on Superman's origin, a separate page with a "Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength," and a four-page thrilling story of how Clark Kent becomes a reporter.

    It is in this two page origin story that an elderly couple, the Kents, are introduced.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 44.

    		.
    1939 April 30 The New York World's Fair opens on April 30, 1939 and will close on October 27, 1940. Ray Middleton is the first man who "donned Superman's tights for a personal appearance."

    According to Daniels, Middleton makes only one appearance, and does not give a date.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 47.
    (For opening and closing dates, Wikipedia)

    		 .
    1939 May Superman hits the stands in his own comic book from DC.

    In this same month, the character of "Batman" makes his debut in Detective Comics 27.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 44, 47

    		 .
    1939 June The Ultra-Humanite makes his first appearance - a Superman villain - in Action Comics #13. He is the head of a "vast ring of evil enterprises."

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 63

    		 .
    1939 November 5 After almost a year in the daily comic strip, Superman begins appearing in the Sunday color comic strips as well.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 37.

    		.
    . . . .
    1940 . Wheeler-Nicholson's National Comics begins to be known as DC, because of the circular logo that appears on their covers.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 37.

    		.
    1940 "Spring" Lex Luthor makes his second appearance as a Superman villain in Superman #4. Luthor has an undersea city as a hideout, and attacks the world with earthquakes [shades of the Crash Corrigan serial Undersea Kingdom (1936)]

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 66.

    		.
    1940 February The character of "Captain Marvel" makes his debut in Whiz Comics and will be successful until 1953, despite a long-running legal action by DC over copyright infringement. Eventually DC will begin publishing the character in a comic book called Shazam.

    "The Spectre" created by Jery Siegel and drawn by Bernard Bailey, makes his debut in More Fun comics #52.

    Action Comics #21. The Ultra-Humanite, who had been killed, had had his brain transplanted inot that of glamourous movie star Dolores Winters. [Is this the first instance of a 'Donovan's Brain' type of story, featuring a man and a woman?] She is killed again, for the final time, in this comic.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 37, 63.

    		.
    1940 February 12 The radio program The Adventures of Superman makes its premiere.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 52.

    		.
    1940 April Superman nemesis Lex Luthor makes his debut in Action Comics 23. At this point - he has a full head of red hair.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 63.

    		.
    1940 May The first issue of Wonder Comics appears. Its hero is Wonder Man. Although he appears only in the one issue, DC sues publisher Victor Fox, a DC accountant, because they feel the character is an imitation of Superman.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 37.

    		.
    1940 November Superman parades through New York City in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 162-163.

    		.
    . . . .
    1941 . The quarterly World's Fair Comics has a title change to World's Best Comics in 'Spring', 1941. The 'summer' issue is then renamed World's Finest Comics.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 47.

    		.
    1941 . Jerry Siegel is interviewed for The Saturday Evening Post about Superman.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 41.

    		.
    1941 March 10 In the daily Superman strip, a long running story appears, sometimes given the overall title of "The League to Destroy Superman." It will run until November 15, 1941.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 41.

    		.
    1941 September 26 The first Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is called simply Superman, (but has come to be called "The Mad Scientist." Its running time is 10:00 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1941 October Superman appears for the first time in the October-November issue All Star Comics #7. This comic book was edited by Sheldon Mayer. This comic book was published by All American Comics, a sister company to DC.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 47.

    		.
    1941 November The villain credited with being Superman's first costume-clad adversary, "The Archer," appears in Superman #13 (November-December 1941). He wouldn't reappear for 41 years.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 67.

    		.
    1941 November 28 The second Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is The Mechanical Monsters, running 10:14 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    . . . .
    1942 . The first novel based on a comic book character appears. It is The Adventures of Superman by George Lowther.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 41.

    		.
    1942 . The Adventures of Superman radio program is picked up by the Mutual Network.

    George Lowther was the narrator of the radio program, and also wrote scripts. In 1942 he becomes director of the program, and Jackson Beck becomes narrator.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 52, 54.

    		.
    1942 January 9 The third Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is Billion Dollar Limited, running 8:35 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 February 27 The fourth Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is The Arctic Giant, running 8:35 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 March 27 The fifth Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is The Bulleteers, running 8:02 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 April The character "Robotman," created by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Paul Cassidy, debuts in Star Spangled Comics #7.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 63.

    		.
    1942 April 24 The sixth Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is The Magnetic Telescope, running 7:38 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 May 15 The seventh Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is Electronic Earthquake, running 8:42 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 June "The Puzzler," Superman villain makes his debut in June 1942 (in what comic book Daniels does not say.)

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 67.

    		.
    1942 July 10 The eighth Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is Volcano, running 7:56 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 August The "Prankster," makes his debut as a Superman villain in Action Comics #51.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 68.

    		.
    1942 August 28 The ninth Superman cartoon, animated by Max Fleischer Studios, makes its debut. It is Terror on the Midway, running 8:03 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 September 18 The tenth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios after Fleischer Studios was absorbed by Paramount, makes its debut. It is Japoteurs, running 9:05 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 October 16 The eleventh Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is Showdown, running 8:14 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 November 20 The twelfth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is Eleventh Hour, running 7:58 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1942 December 25 The thirteenth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is Destruction, Inc., running 8:32 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    . . . .
    1943 . The element of Kryptonite is introduced on the radio program The Adventures of Superman.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 57.

    		.
    1943 . Jerry Siegel is drafted into the Army. (Joe Shuster is deferred because of his eyesight, as is Clark Kent.)

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 69.

    		.
    1943 January "The Puzzler," a Superman villain who first appeared in June, 1942, makes his last appearance in this issue (of what particular comic Daniels doesn't say.)

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 67.

    		.
    1943 February 19 The fourteenth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is The Mummy Strikes, running 7:46 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1943 March 26 The fifteenth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is Jungle Drums, running 8:00 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1943 April The character of Susie Tompkins, 8-years old, freckle-faced, pig-tailed, the niece of Lois Lane is introduced. Her claim to fame is that she is a habitual liar. She will appear in several issues, with her final appearance in 1955.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 67.

    		.
    1943 June 18 The sixteenth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is The Underground World, running 8:13 minutes.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1943 July 4 Jerry Siegel is a celebrity. He is sworn into the army in a special ceremony during Cleveland's Festival of Freedom on this day. Siegel would work for theArmy newspaper Stars and Stripes.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 69.

    		.
    1943 July 30 The seventeenth Superman cartoon, this one animated by Famous Studios, makes its debut. It is Secret Agent, running 7:39 minutes. It is the only Fleischer/Famous Studios cartoon in which Lois Lane does not appear.

    Source: Various including the Internet Movie Database. [http://www.imdb.com]

    		See The Thunder Child Superman Sourcebook for more information.
    1943 September The Superman villain "The Toyman" makes his debut in Action Comics #64.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 68.

    		.
    . . . .
    1944 . Julius Schwartz, an agent for some of science fiction's most important writers, joins DC's sister company, All American, just before the two branches merged.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 131.

    		.
    1944 January The Superman villain "J. Wilbur Wolfingham," a conman modeled after W. C. Fields, makes his debut in Superman #26.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 68.

    		.
    1944 February The Superman villain "Mr. Mxyxtplk," created by Jerry Siegel, makes his debut in the daily comic strip. He is a man from another dimension whose goal is to drive other people crazy. According to Daniels he was inspired by the Warner Brothers cartoon character Bugs Bunny. To Daniels, "Mxyzptlk" (as his name came to be spelled) was Siegel's "ultimate comedy character, and perhaps his last important contribution to the foundation of Superman lore, for the creation was growing away from its creators."

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 68.

    		.
    1944 September The Superman villain "Mr. Mxyxtplk," created by Jerry Siegel, who first made his debut in the daily comic strip, appears for the first time in the comic book Superman #30.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 68.

    		.
    . . . .
    1945 . Batman appears on The Adventures of Superman for the first time.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 54.

    		.
    1945 . On the radio program The Adventures of Superman, villainous The Scarlet Widow acquires a chunk of kryptonite, divides it among villains such as the Vulture, the Laugher and der Teufel.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 57.

    		.
    1945 January The character of Superboy makes his debut in More fun Comics #101 (January-February 1945).

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 69.

    		.
    1945 April 21 Superman writer Alvin Schwartz worked with artist Wayne Boring on the Superman comic strip. Achwartz had written a story in which Superman ets involved with a cyclotron, "a scientific device he recalled from an old magazine article." Because the cyclotron was being used in the creation of the atomic bomb, he was soon being investigated by the War Department.

    On this day, a secret document prepared by Lt. Colonel John Lansdale Jr. concluded "It is impossible to censor comic strips as the Office of Censorship does not have the personnel for such a task. Also, to attempt to do so would call a great deal of attenton fo secret matters." Daniels continues to quote: "It is further believed that the 'funny page' characterization of a cyclotron will considerably deemphasize any serious consideration of the apparatus by many people."

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 69.

    		.
    . . . .
    1946 . On the radio program The Adventures of Superman, the serial "Unity House" is aired. Superman takes a strong stand against racial prejudice, and defies the KKK. It is on this occasion that Bud Collyer reveals his secret identity as the actor playing Superman.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 57.

    		.
    1946 . Superboy's stories begin appearing in Adventure Comics, where he is given the covers and the lead stories inside.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 69.

    		.
    1946 April The "Prankster," appears in Action Comics #95. "He is so good at humilating Superman that he drove the Man of Steel...into retirement."

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 68.

    		.
    . . . .
    1947 April Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
    sue DC Comics, for $5 million and the rights to Superman, (which they had sold for $130 in 1939, at Superman's first publication.) Siegel, according to Daniels, "seems to have been the driving force behind the lawsuit."

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 70.

    		.
    . . . .
    1948 Kirk Alyn is hired by producer Sam Katzman to play Clark Kent/Superman in a serial. The serial was directed by Spenceer Bennet. Superman flew via animation. Noel Niell played Lois Lane.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 74-75.

    		.
    1948 May Newsweek reports the story that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster have settled their lawsuit with DC Comics. Although the court decreed they had no "property rights in Superman," they were granted a $100,000 for signing a quitclaim deed to both Superman and Superboy. Their bylines were removed from the Superman comic books and newspaper strip. Most of the money goes to pay legal fees.

    In Adventure Comics #128, a story entitled "How Clark Kent Met Lois Lane" depicts the two meeting in childhood. [In these days, an effort to maintain continuity was not great.]

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 73.

    		.
    1948 July A tenth-anniversary retelling of "The Origin of Superman" appears in Superman #53 (July-August 1958). It was illustrated by Wayne Boring, who would work on Superman for several decades.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 74.

    		.
    1948 July 14 Jerry Siegel's first wife, Bella, sues for divorce.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 73.

    		.
    1948 October 7 A divorce decree is granted between Jerry Siegel and his first wife, Bella. Samuel Silbert is the Judge on the case.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 73.

    		.
    1948 October 14 Jerry Siegel marries Joanne Carter, whom he had first met in 1937 when she modeled for Lois Lane. The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper will report the news the next day.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 73.

    		.
    . . . .
    1949 . Kryptonite, which is first invented on the Superman radio series in 1943, makes its appearance in a Superman comic book for the first time in this year.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 67.

    		.
    1949 March The character of Superboy, who had made his debut in More Fun Comics #101 (January-February, 1945) is given his own book.

    Source: The Complete Superman, Les Daniels, pg. 67.

    		.

    [1914-1949]

    [1950-1989]

    [1990-onward]

    All photos, illustrations and book covers in the Notes section retain their original copyright and are presented here under fair use for education, reference and review.

    Go To The Comics Index
    Return to the Table of Contents
    Go to the Site Map
    Go to Volcano Seven

    • [Home Page] [Contact Us] [Triskelion] [TechnoOcean] [Daily Space] [Store] [Site Map]

    To see our animated navigation bars, please download the Flash Player from Adobe.

    All text © 2006, 2007 The Thunder Child unless otherwise credited.
    All illustrations retain original copyright.
    Please contact us with any concerns as to correct attribution.
    Any questions, comments or concerns contact The Thunder Child.