This was very true in 1954, when the lives of several famous and infamous individuals crossed paths. Readers are willing to suspend their disbelief, all the while knowing that such coincidences do not exist in the real world. Octopus robs the same bank. Or that time Batman and Superman just happen to be assigned the same cabin on a endangered cruise ship. Peter Parker and Aunt May just happened to apply for a loan when Dr. The X-Men’s car just happens to break down in front of Magneto’s hidden base.

Beware: It is not for the faint of heart.Ĭoincidence is a device commonly applied in fiction, and especially in comics. What follows is the amazing true story of Joe Shuster’s Nights of Horror and the Brooklyn Thrill Killers. That is where the story takes a strange turn - one that leads to bondage, censorship, the Boy Hitler of Flatbush Avenue, The Supreme Court, and a German-born psychiatrist named Wertham. However, by 1954 Joe had fallen on hard times: He was no longer drawing Superman he had lost a lawsuit to get his creation back and his latest book, Funny Man, was a miserable flop. In 1938, Superman took flight from the drawing board of a teenage boy named Joe Shuster into the pages of Action Comics.

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