Superman by Various
A hardcover retrospective of the Man of Steel that includes stories from Action Comics number 0, numbered 1-2, number 137, number 242, number 544, number 775, and number 900, Adventures of Superman number 498, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Superman number 11, number 17, number 53, number 75-76, number 149, number 247, and number 400.
Born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerome Siegel was, as a teenager, a fan of the emerging literary genre that came to be known as science fiction. Together with schoolmate Joe Shuster, Siegel published several science-fiction fan magazines, and in 1933 they came up with their own science-fiction hero -- Superman. Siegel scripted and Shuster drew several weeks' worth of newspaper strips featuring their new creation, but garnered no interest from publishers or newspaper syndicates. It wasn't until the two established themselves as reliable adventure-strip creators at DC Comics that the editors at DC offered to take a chance on the Superman material -- provided it was re-pasted into comic-book format for DC's new magazine, ACTION COMICS. Siegel wrote the adventures of Superman (as well as other DC heroes, most notably the Spectre, his co-creation with Bernard Baily) through 1948 and then again from 1959-1966, in the interim scripting several newspaper strips including Funnyman and Ken Winston. Jerry Siegel died in January, 1996.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781401247041 |
| ISBN 10 | 1401247040 |
| Title | Superman |
| Author | Various |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Year published | 2013-11-26 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |