Jerry Siegel

Jerome Siegel October 17 1914 January 28 1996 was an American comic book writer He is the cocreator of Superman in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster published by DC Comics They also created Doctor Occult who was later featured in The Books of Magic Siegel and Shuster were inducted into the comic book industrys Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 With Bernard Baily Siegel also cocreated the longrunning DC character The Spectre Siegel created ten of the earliest members of the Legion of SuperHeroes one of DCs most popular team books which is set in the 30th Century Siegel also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter and Jerry Ess Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerry Siegel licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia