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 1,290,831 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Joe Shuster is the 65th most popular comic artist (down from 56th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Canada (down from 147th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Comic Artist.

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  • 53.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Joe Shuster ranks 65 out of 226. Before him are Romano Scarpa, Jerry Siegel, Benoît Sokal, Art Spiegelman, E. C. Segar, and Takehiko Inoue. After him are Jacques Tardi, Yoshito Usui, Vicar, Robert Crumb, Takeshi Obata, and Tignous.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Joe Shuster ranks 145. Before him are Dobri Dobrev, Akira Matsunaga, Martin Ritt, Yuri Levitan, Anatole Abragam, and Henri Langlois. After him are Tito Okello, Albert Soboul, Kenny Clarke, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Sándor Képíró, and Budd Schulberg. Among people deceased in 1992, Joe Shuster ranks 116. Before him are Gaston Reiff, Alex Haley, Robert Morley, László Benedek, Mohammad Hidayatullah, and Borislav Pekić. After him are Anthony Dawson, Ernst Schäfer, Gustav Lombard, Farag Foda, Nie Rongzhen, and Emilio Recoba.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Joe Shuster ranks 166 out of 1,622. Before him are Denys Arcand (1941), Shawn Mendes (1998), Brian Mulroney (1939), Raymond Massey (1896), Jeff Wall (1946), and Stephen Harper (1959). After him are Henry Czerny (1959), James Doohan (1920), Emily Carr (1871), Napoleon Sarony (1821), Alfred Aho (1941), and Nelly Furtado (1978).

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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), Guy Delisle (1966), and Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979).

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