“Look! Up in the Sky!”: Comics Take Flight, 1938–1941

The story of Siegel and Shuster’s creation of Superman is one of the great tragedies of the Golden Age. In it, we find lain bare the double-dealing and shuttered bright-eyed optimism that beleaguered the industry in its nascent stages. The young creative duo sold Superman to Donnenfeld and DC for a whopping sum of $130.