He’d last worked for DC Comics ten years earlier, writing stories about Bizarro and Jimmy Olsen for the standard page rate, and parted on bad terms. He ruined our lives, deliberately, though Joe and I originated Superman, which enriched Liebowitz and his associates.”Īt the time, Siegel was 61 years old, living in California and working as a clerk-typist, with a side hustle writing stories for Italian Disney comics. “Jack Liebowitz, a member of the Board of Directors of Warner Communications, stabbed Joe Shuster and me, Jerry Siegel, in the back. Siegel had just learned that somebody was making a multi-million dollar Superman movie, and it did not sit well with him, and he wanted people to know that. That’s the beginning of a ten-page typewritten manifesto penned in 1975 by Jerry Siegel, the co-creator of Superman. I hope the whole world, becoming aware of the stench that surrounds Superman, will avoid the movie like a plague. 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! I hope it super-bombs. Re: THE VICTIMIZATION OF SUPERMAN’S ORIGINATORS, JERRY SIEGEL AND JOE SHUSTER
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