Eventually Superman was picked up as a 13-page story for the first issue of a new title at DC, Action Comics, published in May 1938 (as the June issue). With Siegel writing and Shuster drawing, they tried to sell their idea as a newspaper comic strip, but it was rejected everywhere they went. Siegel later reconceived the character as a good guy, and in brainstorming sessions with Shuster they devised Superman's costume and the basic backstory everyone now knows (an infant rocketed into space from a dying planet lands in America). The zine's third issue featured a story called "Reign of the Superman", co-written by Siegel and Shuster and mimeographed in January 1933, about a miscreant with super powers. The two boys first worked together on another fanzine called Science Fiction, where amateur contributors included such future sci-fi celebrities as Forrest J. About two years later he met his friend and collaborator, Joe Shuster, when they both attended the same high school in Cleveland. After submitting several pieces of short fiction to Amazing Stories and Science Wonder Stories (all rejected) he started his own sci-fi zine, Cosmic Stories, when he was 15 years old. Jerry Siegel was a science fiction geek growing up.
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