Publication history of Superman have gone down to his local newsstand and asked a kid, "Why are you reading this one?" pointing to "Action Comics". "Because it's the one that has Superman in it, mister." The revised Superman first appeared in "Action Comics" #1, June 1938. Siegel and Shuster sold the rights to the company for $130 and a contract to supply the publisher with material. The "Saturday Evening Post" reported in 1960 that the pair was being paid $75,000 each per year, still a fraction of DC's Superman profits. In 1964, when Siegel and Shuster sued for more money, DC fired them, prompting
Superman: War of the Supermen Superman: War of the Supermen Superman: War of the Supermen is an American comic book limited series from DC Comics that serves as the culmination to the "Superman" line-wide event "". The series began on Free Comic Book Day 2010, with a zero-issue released free of charge before the main limited series began the following week. The whole event is portrayed as a "100 Minute War" in the narrative's time, although the whole event lasted one month in May 2010. No other "Superman" family books were solicited that month other than "Superman/Batman" and "Adventure Comics" neither of which crosses over