Superman The Golden Age: Volume 1

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Historic first appearances from Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster’s legendary Man of Steel! Faster than a speeding bullet Superman burst onto the comic book scene in 1938 just as America was on the terrifying precipice of a world war In a desperate time legendary creators Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster brought to life the world’s first modern superhero The Man of Steel emerged as a champion of the oppressed taking down any enemy with his super-strength & speed both foreign & near to home In his distinctive royal blue red & yellow costume complete with cape the stalwart Kryptonian emanated strength & fearlessness He swiftly became a symbol of hope for a downtrodden America Collecting all of the Metropolis Wonder’s first-ever adventures from ACTION COMICS 1-19 SUPERMAN 1-3 & NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR COMICS 1! Meet the Author Born in 1914 in Cleveland OH 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 & in 1933 they came up with their own science fiction hero— Superman Siegel scripted & 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 & then again from 1959-1966 in the interim scripting several newspaper strips including Funnyman & Ken Winston Jerry Siegel died in January 1996