Editing Joe Shuster (section)

==Early life and career==
Joseph Shuster was born in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], to a [[Jew]]ish family.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|author=Blair Kramer|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/superman.html|title=Superman|encyclopedia=[[Jewish Virtual Library]]|access-date=August 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714191351/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/superman.html|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Rafael Medoff|url=http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2013/6/10/superman-saving-his-jewish-creators|title=Superman: Saving his Jewish creators|date=June 10, 2013|access-date=August 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907103124/http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2013/6/10/superman-saving-his-jewish-creators|archive-date=September 7, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=oil>{{cite book|last=Norwood|first=Stephen Harlan|author2=Eunice G. Pollack|title=Encyclopedia of American Jewish history, Volume 1|publisher=[[ABC-Clio|ABC-CLIO]]|year=2008|pages=471|isbn=978-1-85109-638-1}}</ref> His father, Julius Shuster (originally [[Schuster|Shuster]][[Slavic name suffixes|owich]]), an immigrant from [[Rotterdam]], had a tailor shop in Toronto's garment district. His mother, Ida (Katharske), had come from Kiev, [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Kyiv]], Ukraine).<ref name=torontostar1992>{{cite news | url = http://joeshusterawards.com/hof/hall-of-fame-joe-shuster/superman-at-the-star-joe-shusters-last-interview/ | title = Great Krypton! Superman was the Star's Ace Reporter (Joe Shuster's final interview) | publisher =[[Toronto Star]] via JoeShusterAwards.com | date = April 26, 1992 | first=Henry | last = Mietkiewicz | access-date = June 26, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100805030634/http://joeshusterawards.com/hof/hall-of-fame-joe-shuster/superman-at-the-star-joe-shusters-last-interview/ | archive-date=August 5, 2010| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Ricca |first=Brad |title=Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—the Creators of Superman |publisher=Macmillan }}</ref> His family, including his sister, Jean, lived on Bathurst, Oxford, and Borden Streets. In 1922 Julius Shuster was listed as living at 48 Major Street,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Might Directories Ltd. |url=http://archive.org/details/torontodirec192200midiuoft |title=The Toronto City Directory 1922 |date=1922 |publisher=Toronto: Might Directories Ltd. |others=Toronto Public Library : Toronto Reference Library |language=English}}</ref> and in 1923 and 1924 at 101 Oxford Street.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Might Directories Ltd. |url=http://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1923 |title=Might's Greater Toronto city directory, 1923 |date=1923 |publisher=Toronto, Might Directories [etc.] |others=Toronto Public Library}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Might Directories Ltd. |url=http://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1924 |title=Might's Greater Toronto city directory, 1924 |date=1924 |publisher=Toronto, Might Directories [etc.] |others=Toronto Public Library}}</ref> Joe attended Ryerson and Lansdowne Public Schools (now [[List of Toronto District School Board elementary schools|Ryerson Community School and Lord Lansdowne Junior Public School]] with the [[Toronto District School Board]]).<ref name=torontostar1992 /> One of his cousins was comedian [[Frank Shuster]] of the Canadian comedy team [[Wayne and Shuster]].<ref>{{cite news | last =Mietkiewicz | first= Henry | title = Superman at 'The Star' | work = [[The Toronto Star]] | date =April 26, 1992}}</ref><ref name=canadianencyclopedia>{{cite web |first=Alan |last=Hustak |url=http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007380 |title=''The Canadian Encyclopedia'': Shuster, Joe |publisher=[[The Historica Dominion Institute]] |access-date=June 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607231233/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007380 |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }}. .</ref> He also had a brother named Frank.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vidal |first=David |date=December 24, 1975 |title=Superman's Creators Get Lifetime Pay |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/24/archives/supermans-creators-get-lifetime-pay.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=December 12, 2016}}</ref>

As a youngster, Shuster worked as a [[Paperboy (newspaper delivery)|newspaper boy]] for the ''[[Toronto Star|Toronto Daily Star]]''.<ref name=torontostar1992 /> The family barely made ends meet, and the budding young artist would scrounge for paper, which the family could not afford. He recalled in 1992,

{{blockquote|I would go from store to store in Toronto and pick up whatever they threw out. One day, I was lucky enough to find a bunch of wallpaper rolls that were unused and left over from some job. The backs were blank, naturally. So it was a goldmine for me, and I went home with every roll I could carry. I kept using that wallpaper for a long time.<ref name=torontostar1992 />}}

Sometime in 1924,<ref name=torontostar1992 /> when Shuster was 9<ref name=canadianencyclopedia /> or 10,<ref name=humble /> his family moved to [[Cleveland, Ohio]].<ref name=canadianencyclopedia /> There Shuster attended [[Glenville High School]] and befriended his later collaborator, writer [[Jerry Siegel]], with whom he began publishing a [[science fiction fanzine]] called ''Science Fiction''. Siegel described his friendship with the similarly shy and bespectacled Shuster: "When Joe and I first met, it was like the right chemicals coming together."<ref name=SundayClassics/>

The duo broke into comics at Major [[Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson]]'s [[National Allied Publications]], the future [[DC Comics]], working on the landmark ''[[New Fun]]''—the first comic-book series to consist solely of original material rather than using any reprinted newspaper [[comic strips]]—debuting with the [[musketeer]] [[swashbuckler]] "Henri Duval" and the [[Occult detective fiction|occult detective]] [[Doctor Occult]], both in ''New Fun'' #6 (Oct. 1935).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Alan |last2=Irvine |first2=Alex |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=McAvennie |first4=Michael |last5=Wallace |first5=Daniel |title=DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle |date=2010 |publisher=DK Publishing |page=13 |isbn=978-0-7566-6742-9}}</ref> In a 1992 interview, in which he used the fledgling publisher's future name, he said the two sample strips were not the ones eventually published:

{{blockquote|One was drawn on brown wrapping paper and the other was drawn on the back of wallpaper from Toronto. And DC approved them, just like that! It's incredible! But DC did say, 'We like your ideas, we like your scripts and we like your drawings. But please, copy over the stories in pen and ink on good paper.' So I got my mother and father to lend me the money to go out and buy some decent paper, the first drawing paper I ever had, in order to submit these stories properly to DC Comics.<ref name=torontostar1992 />}}