Mike Collins

And Superman's hair is completely slicked back.

And he was a far bulkier figure.

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The boots weren't always drawn the way we see the boots now.

I mean, what's interesting about Superman is that he was actually created by Joe Siegel and Jerry Schuster five years earlier, and it got rejected and rejected and rejected.

So they really sort of never thought this thing was going to see print.

It's only when Action Comics number one was going to press, they didn't have enough material to go in there.

So they had to go through the slush pile, and they found this story that these two kids had written and drawn, because they were only in their late teens when they did it, and shoved it in there.

And obviously, they did it as a one-off thing.

But then it was a massive success.

It went from, I think, the first issue of Action Comics sold something like 200,000 issues.

But after a few months, it was selling a million issues a month.

So they really had to think about what Superman was and how Superman looked.

And so within a year, we got to see the Superman we kind of think of as today.

It was easily one of the biggest thrills of my life.

But it was so daunting when you realize when you're sitting and putting pencil to paper that you are drawing a character that has been around for longer than your parents.

You know, it's a figure out of history.

I did freeze up a bit when I started because it was just the most extraordinary opportunity to do.

What a thrill.

I think it's the human aspect.