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COMIC ARTIST

Joe Shuster

1914 - 1992

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Joseph Shuster ( SHOO-stər; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992), was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1 (cover-dated June 1938). Shuster was involved in a number of legal battles over ownership of the Superman character. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Shuster has received more than 1,210,760 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Joe Shuster is the 56th most popular comic artist (down from 54th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Canada (up from 156th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Comic Artist.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Joe Shuster ranks 56 out of 174. Before him are Enki Bilal, Frank Miller, Émile Cohl, Jerry Siegel, Naoko Takeuchi, and Riyoko Ikeda. After him are Charles Addams, E. C. Segar, Art Spiegelman, Takeshi Obata, Guido Crepax, and Masami Kurumada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Joe Shuster ranks 123. Before him are Jerry Siegel, Juan Carlos Onganía, Dobri Dobrev, Hans Hellmut Kirst, Paul Tortelier, and Maxim of Bulgaria. After him are Baba Amte, Howard Fast, Sun Ra, Kenny Clarke, Yahya Khan, and Martin Ritt. Among people deceased in 1992, Joe Shuster ranks 97. Before him are Jeff Porcaro, Audre Lorde, Anthony Dawson, Petra Kelly, Tevfik Esenç, and Jim Garrison. After him are John G. Kemeny, Néstor Almendros, Paul Henreid, Marisa Mell, Gaston Reiff, and Rihei Sano.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Joe Shuster ranks 147 out of 1,350. Before him are Lorne Greene (1915), Katheryn Winnick (1977), Jordan Peterson (1962), Sid Meier (1954), Henry Taube (1915), and Eugene Levy (1946). After him are Deanna Durbin (1921), Raymond Burr (1917), Marie Dressler (1868), Arthur Hiller (1923), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), and Chris Benoit (1967).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Canada

Among comic artists born in Canada, Joe Shuster ranks 1. After him are Hal Foster (1892), Todd McFarlane (1961), and Guy Delisle (1966).

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