SUPERMAN CREATOR SHOCKER: SECRET DEPRAVED S&M COMIX

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Shocking new tell-all links S&M rampage of Brooklyn Thrill Killers to Superman co-creator’s secret, underground torture art.

According to new book Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster by Craig Yoe Joe Shuster was believed to be so broke in the 1950s that he turned to kinky bondage comics that  spawned a juvie crime wave of assault and murder.

Pop mythos states both Shuster and co-creator Jerry Siegel sold the rights to the money making Man of Steel for a paltry sum in 1938 after the strip was rejected by every single newspaper syndicate.  They were later fired  from DC-National Comics in the late 1940s after demanding a greater cut of the super-profits  after having made millions at the height of the depression.  After several failed attempts to launch other characters elsewhere with Siegel, Shuster was broke and desperately in need of work.

Despite long standing lawsuits against DC and later Time -Warner claiming Shuster was legally blind by the 1950s, the book alleges that not only could Shuster still  draw  but did so with a perverted panache – cranking out illustrations for the under-the-counter, brown paper bag  Nights of Horror comic which specialized in tales of  torture.

 When a series of senseless killings made nationwide headlines in 1952, the teen age Brooklyn Thrill Killers claimed they got the ideas for their sick crimes from the Nights of Horror comics  — especially the ones drawn by Shuster.  This lead to Senate subcommittees and crackpot psychiatrists blaming comics for all kinds of social disorder including juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, homosexuality and rampant  Communism.  Ultimately the McCarthy era witch-hunt which saw “red” even in Superman’s cape led to the publishers’ self-imposed police action of the Comics Code Authority.

A copy of the book provided to The ENQUIRER by a publishing insider reveals an underground world of repressed sex manifesting itself in a horrific world of crime and tawdry reality.

The graphic starkness of the art – be it Joe Shuster himself or someone imitating his style – Secret Identity is no world of nudie-cutie Bettie Page but a shocking expose of modern misogyny – made all the more terrible by its seeming resemblance to iconic American pop.