Editing Joe Shuster (section)

{{Short description|Comic book artist, co-creator of Superman (1914–1992)}}
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{{Infobox comics creator
| image         = Joe Shuster.jpg
| caption       = Shuster in 1939
| birth_name    = Joseph Shuster
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1914|07|10}}
| birth_place   = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1992|07|30|1914|07|10}}
| death_place   = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
| relatives        = [[Frank Shuster]] (cousin)
| artist        = y
| pencil        = y
| alias         = Reuths<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine|last1=Wolk|first1=Douglas|title=75 Years of the First Comic Book Superhero (It's Not Who You Think)|url=https://techland.time.com/2010/07/05/75-years-of-the-first-comic-book-superhero-its-not-who-you-think/|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=5 July 2010 |access-date=23 April 2016}}</ref>
| notable works = [[Superman]], [[Action Comics 1|''Action Comics'' #1]]
| awards        = [[Inkpot Award]] (1975)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inkpot Awards |url=https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Comic-Con International |language=en-US}}</ref><br />[[Eisner Award|Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame]], 1992<br />[[List of Harvey Award winners#The Jack Kirby Hall of Fame|Jack Kirby Hall of Fame]], 1993<br />[[Joe Shuster Awards|Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame]], 2005
| signature     = Signature of Joe Shuster.png
}}
'''Joseph Shuster''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ʃ|uː|s|t|ər}} {{respell|SHOO|stər}}; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992)<ref name=LATimesobit>{{cite news | url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-03-me-4549-story.html | title=Joe Shuster, Co-Creator of Superman, Dead at 78|date=August 3, 1992|first=Burt A. |last=Folkart|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=June 1, 2016 | archive-date= October 22, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131022124337/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-03/local/me-4549_1_joe-shuster | url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=NewsWatch: Joseph Shuster Dies at 78 | journal =[[The Comics Journal]] | issue = 152 | date = August 1992 | page=9}}</ref><ref name=SundayClassics>{{cite book | author-link=Roger Stern | first=Roger | last=Stern | title = Superman: Sunday Classics: 1939 – 1943 | publisher = [[DC Comics]]/[[Kitchen Sink Press]]/[[Sterling Publishing]] | year = 2006 | page = xii}}</ref> was a Canadian-American [[comic book artist]] best known for co-creating the [[DC Comics]] character [[Superman]], with [[Jerry Siegel]], in [[Action Comics 1|''Action Comics'' #1]] ([[cover-date]]d June 1938).

Shuster was involved in a number of legal battles over ownership of the Superman character. His comic book career after Superman was relatively unsuccessful, and by the mid-1970s, Shuster had left the field completely due to partial blindness.

He and Siegel were inducted into both the comic book industry's [[List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame|Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame]] in 1992 and the [[List of Harvey Award winners#The Jack Kirby Hall of Fame|Jack Kirby Hall of Fame]] in 1993. In 2005, the [[Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association]] instituted the [[Joe Shuster Awards]], named to honor the Canada-born artist.