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American Mythology
The Making of Superman
4 'You can do it, Joe.'
A new magazine Doc Savage came
out from Street and Smith in March 1933.
'Joe, you gotta draw this character, Savage! He's like the futurist
gladiator character I've been writing for my story. It's Wylie's superhuman
American - you remember Philip G. Wylie's Gladiator I
reviewed for the school magazine? Well, Doc Savage is him.
It's like this Lester Dent writer has cribbed Wylie and the stories I submitted,
and made them read like a real pro should.'
Joe Shuster read DOC SAVAGE - The Man of Bronze in one morning.
'This guy Savage has got his headquarters on the eighty-sixth
floor of a New York skyscraper. You didn't write that in
your stories, Jerry.'
'No. But can you see other similarities?'
'It's full of hope the Depression can be beat, I guess. Hope for
the future. And your science-fiction stories are full of hope for the future.'
'What I'm gonna do, Joe, is type out the whole Man of Bronze
story. I can learn the writing style by doing that. I'll leave half the
page blank so you can draw your illustrations for it.'
'I got Art School assignments, Jerry.'
'You can do it, Joe.'
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