Superman, The Man of Steel!

Superman, since his debut in 1938, has become world renown. Just about everyone on the planet (no pun intended) has gained familiarity with the man of steel and his home planet Krypton.

Did Max Gaines, the man most instrumental in bring Superman to the comics, really know what a worldwide splash he was going to make with his suggestions? It was Max C. Gaines, who brought the character to Dell's publisher, Harry Donenfield. Donenfield scored the comic coup of the century when he published a story written by two teenagers, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster- and so "Superman of Metropolis" (the title of their short story they wrote in their own fanzine) was born and the rest is history. Read on for a Superman history lesson…