More than just about Superman in more ways than even I ever expected

 Hello All,                                                                                                                                                         Now I know that you all know that  my  favorite comic book superhero is absolutely without any doubt is the one seen here from 

 at Columbia Square mall in Columbus, Georgia from when I was seven years old where he has me in a choke hold while the picture was being taken, is the guy called Spider-Man! I know that I always seem to have great tendency to talk about things that truly deep down in someway or other write about things that do keep me involved in whatever way possible to being full of inspiring hope as much as I Raymond Matthew Byrd can be,,, but this very entry post isn't at all about Spider-Man at all!

Actually this time this entry is about the chronological history of the very first superhero ever... we all know who it is I am talking about and no I am not talking about Batman at all? Yet I don't know exactly for sure but maybe Batman is the second main superhero known as a comic book hero that we all know that I know that I am definitely aware of... But who the first comic book superhero ever? Well please join me as I explain about not only the character known as the man of steel or the big blue boyscout also known as Superman! 

 I have since late April of this year been investing time in the book seen here,  

                                                                                                 in The Superman Wars, it is not just about the character or a certain era of a set of comic stories either. It is essentially the fight of one man and his struggles to keeping ownership of something he created with his artistic friend named Joe Shuster. It's a historical experience of dealing with corporate business and dealing with that company's backstabbing a young creative man of his own character.  So it's very close to back in nineteen ninety one, when seven big time artists choose to create their own characters outside of both Marvel comics and Decetevice Comics and have control over their own destinies as individual creators and unlike the man who created Superman Jerry Siegel couldn't do was own his very own character. Their comic publishing imprint name happens to be known as Image comics.                                                                                    

      The origin of Superman came from a boy who was born on October 14th, 1914 and was named Jerome "Jerry" Siegel he was the youngest out of six children,  and even as a child when he was having a hard time of learning in general in grade school he used his imagination when family came to visit. His parents were Sarah and Michael Siegel they were from the impoverished ghettos of Eastern Europe growing up and were married in 1898.They were Jews and his father Michael had found a way to leave to the United States in 1900 working as a sign painter till he found work as tailor in New York of the United States and in October of that year they not only had their sixth child.  

     The Siegel family eventually moved from New York to Cleveland, Ohio most of Jerome's siblings were close to adulthood and his mother was without a doubt in constant worry for their youngest son and his future like most mothers do. Even though he did have a hard time of learning in general he loved reading and one thing he loved reading the most was newspaper comic strips from reading those strips he was able to understand story construction and had met a young friend named Joe Shuster while in high school. Both Jerome and Joe for quite a long amount of time couldn't find a relationship with any female outside of their own mothers and it wasn't because they weren't trying right now, it was a very hard time for almost everyone they knew of their age were trying to figure out life just as much as they were and the two of them had something a lot of people their own age didn't. They both had a need to be creative with what thy had as strong potential points for Joe Shuster it was his need of illustrating and for Jerome it was his need of writing... then around this same time, was the start of what came to be known as the great depression.                                                                                               Actually even if anyone can find work in whatever they do love sometimes you have to just don't give up on it your belief in yourself, that is something Jerome and Joe never gave up on. Jerome was now going by Jerry for the most part and he had been reading and writing a lot of different things from his favorite author of Edgar Rice Burroughs and even though he liked  Tarzan,  Jerry really loved Burroughs character John Carter of Mars even more. Jerry's first story way before his mind had any ideas of Superman was a short story that he had intended for the pulp magazines was titled "In the Happy Days to Come". In it was about ordinary people in a futuristic society, yet in actuality the story was about teen dating. He wrote it for his high school paper called the Glenville Torch.  Jerry's first attempt at creating a super hero came during his high school day while working on the Glenville Torch and the character's name was Goober the Mighty" and the story had an illustration of a lion attacking caricature African drawn by Joe Shuster. Jerry's life was forever changed on June 2,1932 when his father Michael was murdered by three "colored men". Who were in his tailor shop named 2nd Hand Clothing.  Two years later in 1934 Jerry wrote a story and had Joe do the illustration for it the story was titled "The Reign of the SUPER-MAN" which Jerry self published himself.  Little did either of Joe or Jerry knew what that story would result in four years down the road... 

     Even later in 1934 Jerry's mind was off and running while he was at his typewriter one night. The next morning he had defined the character,  who was from a distant planet (not yet named...) when on Earth this Superman finds out he has astounding powers as an adult he uses these powers to become the "champion of the oppressed." HE adopts the identity of Clark Kent, who works as a reporter for the Daily Star. What about Lois Lane you're all asking about right Clark's reporter lady friend? Well even though Jerry had written her in the ongoing story of Superman it was his partner Joe Shuster who had ran an ad in January 13th, 1935 edition of The Plain Dealer a local magazine that ran throughout all of the state of Ohio. A young woman named Jolan Kovacs answer it. She took a local bus from West Cleveland to an apartment in Glenville. When Jolan arrived she didn't have any idea of what to expect? Joe asked for her to follow him to his bedroom so they could talk. And Joe's mother was in the room the whole time. He ask Jolan to strike some poses as he asked even more questions all while sketching her on his drawing paper. After they were through with her answers and his illustrations of her they returned to the living room where she met Joe's partner Jerry Siegel.  

     One thing that Jerry did while trying to find anywhere publishing wise to provide print for his take of Superman he always planned on it as well as a newspaper comic strip forum of telling the story and he and Joe had already started in that given direction to start off with anyway. Meanwhile... throughout the rest of 1935 Jerry is still keeping Superman as his own idea till he start working for National Comics and builds a repore within the company by working for the owner of the publication and his name was Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson he had before owning the publisher had been in the military service after a failed marriage in 1910... and lead the Ninth Cavalry by being their lead machine gunner of the troop. In 1934 he opened the company calling it National Allied publication Inc. It was in the end of the following year that a young man named Jerry Siegel had sent a package to Malcolm with and image of Shuster's Superman on the package.                                                                                                                                                           At this same time, of when comics were being made for children there were two very different types of every day type things going on that made life very uncomfortable for everyone around the whole wide world but made one realize the importance of change.  Those two things lead to a very devastating impact on the world as a whole and Jerry knew of at least one of those that maybe his Superman character could if he could write the words of dialogue for the characters in the strip right? Jerry definitely knew that one thing that was going on right around him that drove his need to make his Superman character needed and what that was is the need of pulling the world out of being depressed, because he like everyone else were in the middle of the great depression which started on October 29th, 1929 for the world yet Jerry kinda was feeling it in from just a few years after moving to Ohio, from all the work his dad had done to bring both sides of Jerry's families from the impoverished parts of  Lithuania to the United States. Also like I said above just before Jerry was in his senior year of high school HE NEEDED SUPERMAN! But besides the state of the whole world being in a need of change, crime of all kinds were going on and everywhere as well including in the publishing world of publications and National Allied publication was affected by those parts of the mobs in New York just like every other town that has a place where books are printed back then had problems...                                                                                                                                                        And that's all that I will share with you about the chronological beginnings of Superman and still it's not because I know that in truth I do want share everything in the book of The SUPERMAN WARS with you but I guess deep down in someway or other I want to see if you who are reading this here and now are really and truly interested in comics or comics and their whole history of the character you down right simply Love and no it doesn't mean you can't love more than one comic character over another.  In the end like I just said to me everything about any comic book character is forever important to me even the forgotten history of their creators fighting for ownership of their true hero. To me the book of The SUPERMAN WARS gives you as the reader of the first Comic book superhero in America a great many answers of Superman himself but also the right of Truth, Justice, and the American way are a lot harder to honestly understand when at the end of every day after reading whatever you are wanting to enjoy for a while, your simply human and enjoying your form of entertainment should be well respected by yourself and your family and friends.  Overall I am giving The SUPERMAN WARS a rating of A plus, because even though comics are powerful with their monthly stories it comes down to why I love reading so much that makes all the difference to me if any book is worth investing time in rather it is a novel or short stories and yes even comics too!