Superman at 80: How two high school friends concocted the original comic book hero
The Conversation: Brad Ricca, lecturer of English, wrote about the history of Superman, which Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created in Cleveland in the 1930s. Ricca explained Siegel and Shuster's early iterations of the superhero and where they may have found inspiration for him. Republished by Newsweek, Salon, TEGNA TV stations and Lee Newspapers.
