raymondspogo t1_j4c3har wrote on January 14, 2023 at 5:34 PM Reply to TIL Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, attempted to replicate their success with a second superhero, Funnyman. His book was canceled after only six issues. by Realshow Rather than "attempted to replicate their success" the wiki says they were actually making fun of the success of Superman: "In the first issue, Siegel and Shuster mocked what they saw as the rush of Superman clones in a story called "Funman, Comicman and Laffman"." Permalink 35
raymondspogo t1_j4c3har wrote
Reply to TIL Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, attempted to replicate their success with a second superhero, Funnyman. His book was canceled after only six issues. by Realshow
Rather than "attempted to replicate their success" the wiki says they were actually making fun of the success of Superman:
"In the first issue, Siegel and Shuster mocked what they saw as the rush of Superman clones in a story called "Funman, Comicman and Laffman"."