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Media Release -- July 25, 2009 – SAN DIEGO, CA – The Comics Arts Conference presents "The (Strange) State of Siegel and Shuster Scholarship," which will take place at the 2009 Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 25 from 1-2 p.m. in Room 30AB.
Over seventy years ago, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two nobody Clevelanders, created the first true comics superhero: Superman. But what do we really know about the two creators that isn't just wide-eyed, over-romanticized mythology? Siegel and Shuster were self-trained, self-motivated, and sometimes completely out of their league. Meet three people who are doing exactly the same thing:

