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    <body><![CDATA[It might be called the revenge of the nerds. One of Jerry Siegel’s teachers told the Cleveland teenager that the fantastic adventure stories he wrote were trash. His only friend in high school was Joe Shuster, who shared his love of science fiction and adventure. But while Jerry typed his stories,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70181586">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent children's picturebook biography of mild and meek Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman.  With retro-style art, the story begins with their solitary days in high school before they met - Jerry would isolate himself reading comics and writing science fiction stories in his atti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39300629">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This deceptively simple picture book is surprisingly emotionally resonant. It looks like it may be for children, but after reading it, I'd say it's for the adult reader. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent account of the two boys (Joe and Jerry) who created Superman. The boys met in high school and then sold their idea to DC Comics when they were 24. They spent most of their lives as Superman's obscure creators when DC bought the rights and took their names off the comics. This lasted until ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66531693">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the gripping and fascinating true story of the creation of Superman.  Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were high school students in Cleveland during the Depression.  Jerry was a writer, who loved adventure and science fiction.  Joe loved to draw and illustrated many of Jerry's stories.  Together...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31829662">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, written in comic book style, taught me a lot about the creators of Superman.  I learned a lot about the men who created the iconic comic book character, and the struggle they went through to earn money and credit for their creation.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a Clevelander, I was highly impressed with this book. I thought it was a really concise way to tell the story of the two men who created the super hero Superman and bought us the idealized format of ourselves that is found in super heroes. Super heroes teach us what our priorities are and I reall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37668290">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of how Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the Superman comic books. Beautifully illustrated in the same style as the comic books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting book about the two boys who created Superman.  Also a great book about trying until you succeed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent introduction to the true story of superman's creators for 3-5th graders.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[for all of us geeky nerds who wish they had a secret identity sometime in their lives...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a great back story of Superman's creators -- a somewhat sad tale with an uplifting ending, in the form of the after matter.  There is enough documentation to authenticate the story.  But, this is purely personal taste dictating: I am not in love with either the text or the illustrations.  The t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34914207">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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