Joe Shuster 1939 Superman Sketch

This is a detail of the famous, or infamous, Superman sketch given by Joe Shuster while on a date in 1939. Mary Freeman (later Ernest) the very young lady involved, did not know how close she came to true greatness.

Harlan Ellison felt that since she did not recognize she was in the presence of greatness, she ought not profit from the experience: "this crone still seems not to have even the faintest awareness, the vaguest scintilla of a glimmering, that for one moment in her (most likely) uneventful existence, she touched Posterity, that she shared a moment with someone Who Really Did Matter and who altered society's awareness of Art and itself." (Harlan Ellison in "Tony's Tips" published in Comics Buyer's Guide #1417, January 12, 2001)