Joe Shuster

Joseph Shuster July 10 1914 July 30 1992 was a CanadianAmerican comic book artist best known for cocreating the DC Comics character Superman with Jerry Siegel in Action Comics 1 coverdated June 1938 Shuster was involved in a number of legal battles over ownership of the Superman character His comic book career after Superman was relatively unsuccessful and by the mid1970s Shuster had left the field completely due to partial blindness He and Siegel were inducted into both the comic book industrys Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 In 2005 the Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association instituted the Joe Shuster Awards named to honor the Canadaborn artist Description above from the Wikipedia article Joe Shuster licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia