DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero by Siegel, Jerry

DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero

A major new line of DC collected editions begins with the earliest stories starring the first and...
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Author: Jerry Siegel
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Language: English
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DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero by Siegel, Jerry

DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero

$60.61

DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero

$60.61
Author: Jerry Siegel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A major new line of DC collected editions begins with the earliest stories starring the first and greatest superhero: Superman!

Welcome to DC Finest, a major new publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!

What better place to start then with the hero who started it all: Superman! This collection features the Man of Steel's earliest stories, starting with 1938's legendary Action Comics #1 from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

DC Finest: Superman: The Coming of Superman collects the first two years of Superman adventures in Action Comics #1-25, Superman #1-5, and New York World's Fair #1.

Author: Jerry Siegel
Publisher: DC Comics
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781779528339

About the Author
Born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jerry 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.

Joe Shuster was born in 1914 in Toronto, Canada. When he was nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where Shuster met Jerry Siegel. The two became fast friends and collaborators; together, they published the earliest science-fiction fan magazines, where Shuster honed his fledgling art skills. In 1936, he and Siegel began providing DC Comics with such new features as Dr. Occult, Slam Bradley, and Radio Squad before selling Superman to DC in 1938. Influenced by such comic-strip greats as Wash Tubbs' Roy Crane, Joe Shuster drew Superman through 1947, after which he left comic books to create the comic strip Funnyman, again with Siegel. Failing eyesight cut short his career, but not before his place in the history of American culture was assured. Shuster died of heart failure on July 30, 1992.

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