The episode forms the climax of Brad Ricca’s “Superboys” (St. Now he was sixty-one years old, destitute, and in poor health. But Siegel wrote that “the people who exploit and profit from Superman are greedy and selfish,” and had cheated him out of the rights to his creation. I hope the whole world, becoming aware of the stench that surrounds Superman, will avoid the movie like a plague.” In comics and on television, Superman stood for “truth, justice, and the American way”-as his famous catchphrase has it. I hope loyal Superman fans stay away from it in droves. “I, Jerry Siegel, the co-originator of Superman, put a curse on the Superman movie!” the letter said. In 1975, when trade magazines reported that the first Superman movie was in development, a thousand news outlets across the country received a peculiar letter, single-spaced and ten pages long.
Joe Shuster (seated) and Jerry Siegel at work on Superman, in their studio, in 1942.
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