2008 Merchandise & Miscellaneous News Archives

August 27, 2008: USA Today Examines Mitchell Siegel's Death

USA Today has published an article titled "The crime that created Superman: Did fatal robbery spawn Man of Steel?" which examines the possible link between Jerry Siegel's father's death and the creation of Superman.

    It was Thursday night, about 8:10 p.m., and Mitchell Siegel, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, was in his secondhand clothing store on the near East Side. According to a police report, three men entered. One asked to see a suit of clothes and walked out without paying for it. In the commotion of the robbery, Siegel, 60, fell to the ground and died.

    The police report mentions a gunshot being heard. But the coroner, the police and Siegel's wife said Siegel died of a heart attack. No one was ever arrested.

    What happened next has exploded some of the longest-held beliefs about the origins of Superman and the two teenage boys, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who invented America's best-known comic-book hero.

Read the complete article at the USA Today website.

Note: The article has a quote from Steve Younis and a link back to the Superman Homepage.



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