The Spider''s Syndicate of Crime vs. The Crime Genie

About Jerry Siegel

In 1944 Reg Bunn survived a serious car accident which rendered him paralysed from the neck down he recovered and went on to take part in the 1949 Amalgamated Press talent search which would gain him work for The Comet. He is renowned for his work on Lion and his greatest creation is The Spider with writer Ted Cowan.Jerry Siegel was born on October 17 1914 in Cleveland Ohio the youngest of six children born to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. While attending Glenville High School he befriended Joe Shuster as the two bonded over a shared interest in science fiction and movies. Unable to pay for college Siegel had various day jobs while he also started to submit and sell comic scripts to National Allied Publications. Together with Shuster he had developed a character called Superman which they had intended on selling as a syndicated newspaper strip. However after a few unsuccessful years they finally sold the character to comic-book publisher Detective Comics Inc. for $130.00. The comic became a huge success with Jerry Siegel on board as writer and Shuster on art duties. After military service during World War II Siegel returned to DC Comics for a brief spell but left in 1947 following a much publicised rights battle with the publisher over Superboy. He would return to DC Comics later in his career. Throughout his career he co-created a number of key characters for DC including Doctor Occult The Spectre Star-Spangled Kid and many of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Beyond DC Siegel would team up one more time with Shuster to create the comic Funnyman published by Magazine Enterprises. As well as scripting some Strange Tales scripts for Marvel and The Fly The Mighty Crusaders and The Web for Archie Comics he reached out to the Lion publishers having received some copies of the comic and was so taken by The Spider took over scripting duties from Ted Cowan.