I recall there being a direct reference to Superman in the books so I was wondering if any of the following had any counterparts in TL-191. (Apologies if anyone has asked before.)
-Jerry Siegel
-Joe Shuster
-Bob Kane
-Bill Finger
-Stanley Lieber (AKA Stan Lee)
-Jacob Kurtzburg (AKA Jack Kirby)
-Joe Simon
-Will Eisner
-Fredric Wertham
-Julius Schwartz
These individuals exist as analogues to their OTL counterparts, and almost all of them wound up on rather different career trajectories to our world. For example, Wertham’s counterpart in TTL never left Germany, while the rough analogue to a certain Stanley Lieber (Martin Lieber) becomes a somewhat successful novelist.
As fate would have it, the circumstances behind the creation of a character and superhero called Superman were very different in TTL, since the analogues to Shuster and Siegel did not initially meet in Cleveland. They would meet in very different circumstances, towards the end of the 1920s, in New York City, the center of the US artistic world. Happily, they did not lose out on any credit or royalties from the character in TTL.