Early Life and Training of Will Shuster Will Shuster was born on November 26, 1893, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As the second of three children, his early years were rooted in a city that would later provide the foundation for his technical education. He did not begin his path as a painter; instead, he studied electrical engineering at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. This technical background provided a structured discipline that would later inform his approach to various media, though his life took a sharp turn before he could establish a career in engineering. The trajectory of h…