Then followed a session with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster , creators of the comic-strip hero. Within a few weeks they had plotted and illustrated a special eight-page thriller designed to make youngsters go happily to the nearest dentist. The thriller began with Superman dropping in on Tommy, a freckle-faced lad who would rather play with model planes than brush his teeth. Tucking the boy under one sinewy arm, Superman streaked off to China skies where Bill, a fighter pilot, had suddenly fallen victim to a throbbing toothache in the midst of a dog-fight. Just as Bill was about to be shot down, up hurtled Superman, to the rescue.
Smart fellows take good care of their teeth and visit the dentist regularly.
Yet this was not Superman's first successful attempt to win friends and influence small fry. He has been doing it ever since he rocketed here from his native planet, Krypton. Superman is the by-product of the boyhoods of two undersized Cleveland youths, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. While high school students, the duo absorbed beatings from neighborhood toughs. A combination Samson, Hercules and Atlas plus the morals of Sir Galahad whose mission in life is to smack down the bullies of the world.