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replaced Cassidy on the strip. Other assistants during this time included Dennis Neville, John Sikela (beginning in 1940), Ed Dobrotka (beginning in 1941), Paul J. Lauretta, and Jack Burnley (beginning in 1941). Sikela and Dobrotka often traded penciling and inking duties between each other. Lauretta
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As of 2024, no imprint has yet to publish the Superman daily strips from 1949-1959 as no complete set of viable proofs, or private collections, of those years can be found. If and when found, this run would likely require another three or four additional volumes to be produced.
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The daily strip was host to many storylines, unique from the regular Superman comic series. The early years consisted of Siegel-era Superman stories, many of which have yet to be republished. The strips contained the first appearance of a bald
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court case, the District Court ruled that McClure Syndicate failed to place the copyright notice on some of the strips and thus those strips are in the public domain.
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which began on January 16, 1939, and a separate Sunday strip was added on November 5, 1939. These strips ran continuously until May 1966. In 1941, the
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strips during this early period of shop work was a team effort with multiple artists working on different parts of the same strip.
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originally wrote them until he was drafted in 1943. Whitney Ellsworth, who had begun on the strip in 1941, continued until 1945.
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took over the daily strip on June 18, 1956, along with Stan Kaye. Swan continued on the strip until November 12, 1960.
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had already already published the 1939-1942 years in two hardcover books, one each for the Sundays and the dailies.
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primarily inked and did backgrounds on the strips. Burnley eventually left to work on his own comic book,
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strip, and he continued on the strip until 1958. Bill Woolfolk wrote one story for the dailies in 1953.
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started scripting stories, and he worked through the series' end in 1966. During this final period,
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comic strips, daily and Sundays, originally published between 1943 and 1966, so far producing
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began his writing on the strip in 1942 and worked on the strip off and on until 1962.
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issue #30 and first written by Jerry Siegel and drawn and inked by Ira Yarborough.
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had placed the strip in hundreds of newspapers. At its peak, the strip, featuring
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strip in October 1944. Between 1947 and 1951, Schwartz was the only writer on the
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daily strip. While published second, Mr. Mxyztplk was first created for
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appeared in the newspapers again in 1978, with the newspaper strip
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National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.
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strip if it could not appear regularly and on time, appealed to
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What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?
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This early period ended with the start of World War II.
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newspaper strips. Originally, the strip was drawn by
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National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications
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Index


Jerry Siegel
Joe Shuster
Syndicate(s)
McClure Syndicate
National Comics Publications
Superhero
newspaper
comic strip
McClure Syndicate
Superman
spin-off
National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications

Lex Luthor
Mr. Mxyzptlk
Jor-El
Lara
Clark Kent
Lois Lane
Wayne Boring
Curt Swan
The World's Greatest Superheroes

Joe Shuster
Leo Nowak
Starman
Jerry Siegel
Wayne Boring
Joe Shuster

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