I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.