COMIC ARTIST

Jerry Siegel

1914 - 1996

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Jerome Siegel ( SEE-gəl; October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996) was an American comic book writer. He is the co-creator of Superman, in collaboration with his friend Joe Shuster, published by DC Comics. They also created Doctor Occult, who was later featured in The Books of Magic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Siegel has received more than 1,618,710 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Jerry Siegel is the 60th most popular comic artist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 3,419th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,944th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 53.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Jerry Siegel ranks 60 out of 226. Before him are Guido Crepax, Marjane Satrapi, Enki Bilal, Marco Rota, Saul Steinberg, and Romano Scarpa. After him are Benoît Sokal, Art Spiegelman, E. C. Segar, Takehiko Inoue, Joe Shuster, and Jacques Tardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jerry Siegel ranks 138. Before him are Giorgio Almirante, Ken Annakin, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Ralph Erskine, George Tabori, and Unity Mitford. After him are Dobri Dobrev, Akira Matsunaga, Martin Ritt, Yuri Levitan, Anatole Abragam, and Henri Langlois. Among people deceased in 1996, Jerry Siegel ranks 120. Before him are Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Károly Grósz, Haing S. Ngor, Edison Denisov, Hyman Minsky, and Chas Chandler. After him are Ljuba Welitsch, Aruna Asaf Ali, Dan Flavin, Pierre Grimal, Tito Okello, and Arleigh Burke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Siegel ranks 3,419 out of 20,380. Before him are James McDivitt (1929), Damon Wayans (1960), Amy Beach (1867), Henry Hazlitt (1894), Red Buttons (1919), and Bruce Davison (1946). After him are John C. McGinley (1959), Philip Michael Thomas (1949), Julian Rotter (1916), Teri Garr (1944), Arlene Dahl (1925), and Richie Ginther (1930).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Jerry Siegel ranks 15. Before him are Winsor McCay (1867), Will Eisner (1917), Charles Addams (1912), Bill Finger (1914), Frank Miller (1957), and Charles M. Schulz (1922). After him are E. C. Segar (1894), Robert Crumb (1943), Jim Davis (1945), Richard F. Outcault (1863), Al Taliaferro (1905), and Lee Falk (1911).

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