2008 Merchandise & Miscellaneous News Archives

Book of Lies

August 28, 2008: Meltzer's Novel Weak on Actual Facts?

Cleveland's The Plain Dealer has an article on the real facts of Jerry Siegel's father's death in 1933 and examines the mixing of fact with fiction in Brad Meltzer's book "The Book of Lies".

    Though it is true that Michel Siegel, 59, died during a robbery, there is no evidence beyond confused family legend that he was shot. The man, sometimes referred to as Mitchell, actually died of a heart attack.

    Jerry Siegel also never connected his father's death to Superman before he himself died in 1996. And his widow Joanne, doesn't think the robbery made Siegel or his co-creating friend Joe Shuster invent Superman to fight such crimes.

    "Jerry said his father had a heart attack after the robbery," she said Tuesday. "I don't think that it inspired him (to create Superman]. How many people whose fathers have died have inspired them to do anything at all?"

Read the complete report at the Cleveland.com website.



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