Boys of SteelBy: Marc Tyler Nobleman Illustrator: Ross MacdonaldJerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent meek, mild, and myopic than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote his own original stories and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, the summer they graduated from high school, they created a superhero who was