Daily Star

The Daily Star is a fictional broadsheet newspaper that appeared in Superman stories published by DC Comics. The Daily Star was based in Metropolis and employed Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen; its chief editor is George Taylor both in the Golden Age stories and The New 52 relaunch comics. It was an original precursor of the Daily Planet and was later retconned as its own publishing company in modern comics. In the comics, the newspaper was located in the heart of Metropolis. The Daily Star building's most distinguishing feature was the enormous star that sat on top of the building. Fictional history Superman co-creator Joe Shuster named the Daily Star after the Toronto Daily Star in Ontario, which had been the newspaper that Shuster's parents received and for which Shuster had worked as a paperboy. Called the Evening Star prior to 1899, the Toronto Daily Star is now known simply as the Toronto Star. Shuster told Star reporter Henry Mietkiewicz for a story that ran on April 26, 1992, three months before Shuster died in Los Angeles: "I have very fond memories of the Toronto Star. I still remember drawing one of the earliest panels that showed the newspaper building. We needed a name, and I spontaneously remembered the Toronto Star. So that's the way I lettered it. I decided to do it that way on the spur of the moment, because the Star was such a great influence on my life".