Joe Shuster

“I was just a kid from Cleveland. I had no idea it would become this big.”

“The actor, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., was my main inspiration... he was the epitome of swashbuckling adventure and romance.”

“He was the man of tomorrow, a man of strength, a powerful man who could lick the world.”

“It's a strange thing, but all the time I was drawing him, I never got tired of him. I had a lot of fun drawing him. I loved him.”

“When Jerry and I created Superman, we had no idea he'd become a worldwide phenomenon. We just wanted to create a character we thought was cool.”

“Jerry and I were science fiction fans. We read all the magazines. We were also great movie fans.”

“We weren't thinking of a moral crusade. We were just thinking of something that would be fun to do and that would sell.”

“We thought of him as a combination of Samson, Hercules, and all the strong men I'd ever heard of rolled into one.”