Comic Book Questions Answered is a feature where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). Today, we look into whether the creators of Superman and Batman ever worked on a comic book story starring the OTHER iconic superhero. An important thing to keep in mind about the Golden Age of Comics is that things were extremely decompartmentalized. Comic books were mostly large anthologies consisting of a certain amount of 10-12 page features, and most of the features were by distinctive creative teams, so no one was thinking beyond their specific features. Even when Superman grew so popular that he received his own ongoing series (which, as I’ve repeated a few times recently, DC didn’t even originally think could be maintained as an ongoing series, because the idea of an ongoing series devoted to just one superhero was seen as quite unlikely at the time), the basic effect was the same, 10-12 page features, only now there were MORE of them, and they might appear in Action Comics, or they might appear in Superman.Right off the bat, let’s get it out of the way that no, neither the creators of Superman ever did a Batman comic book story, nor did the creators of Batman ever do a Superman story. Joe Shuster, as you may or may not know, had problems keeping up with the deadlines on the Superman features almost as soon as they started, due to eyesight issues, so Shuster very soon was farming out a lot of his Superman work for DC. By the time that he and Siegel were officially pushed out in the late 1940s for trying to regain the copyright to their creation, Shuster was effectively done as a mainstream comic book artist, although he and Siegel first tried a new superhero, Funnyman, after being fired by DC.
Comic Book Questions Answered is a feature where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at brianc@cbr.com). Today, we look into whether the creators of Superman and Batman ever worked on a comic book story starring the OTHER iconic superhero.
An important thing to keep in mind about the Golden Age of Comics is that things were extremely decompartmentalized. Comic books were mostly large anthologies consisting of a certain amount of 10-12 page features, and most of the features were by distinctive creative teams, so no one was thinking beyond their specific features. Even when Superman grew so popular that he received his own ongoing series (which, as I’ve repeated a few times recently, DC didn’t even originally think could be maintained as an ongoing series, because the idea of an ongoing series devoted to just one superhero was seen as quite unlikely at the time), the basic effect was the same, 10-12 page features, only now there were MORE of them, and they might appear in Action Comics, or they might appear in Superman.
Right off the bat, let’s get it out of the way that no, neither the creators of Superman ever did a Batman comic book story, nor did the creators of Batman ever do a Superman story. Joe Shuster, as you may or may not know, had problems keeping up with the deadlines on the Superman features almost as soon as they started, due to eyesight issues, so Shuster very soon was farming out a lot of his Superman work for DC. By the time that he and Siegel were officially pushed out in the late 1940s for trying to regain the copyright to their creation, Shuster was effectively done as a mainstream comic book artist, although he and Siegel first tried a new superhero, Funnyman, after being fired by DC.
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