Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years Author: Various | Language: English | ISBN:
1401247040 | Format: EPUB
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About the Author
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.
Joseph 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.
- Series: Superman
- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (November 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401247040
- ISBN-13: 978-1401247041
- Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Few Superman stories resonate as deeply as “For the Man Who Has Everything,” written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons a year before they changed everything with WATCHMEN. This Superman story, debuting in the summer of 1985, was one of the last ever to feature Superman before his revamp after the events of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. In a way, it was as if DC was saving the best for last. In all of Superman’s complex and incredibly voluminous tales, is there anything more heartbreaking than Kal-El holding his son while telling him, “I’ll always love you. Always. But…I don’t think you’re real.” Or a moment that more solidifies his absolutely terrifying power than the panel in which he towers over a bewildered Robin, asking,
“Who…did this…to me?”
“For the Man Who Has Everything” falls roughly halfway through SUPERMAN: A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS, which is fitting. With so many amazing stories about the Man of Steel to choose from, it is difficult to cull them down to just 19, but DC has done a nice job of it. The very first appearance, from Action Comics #1, is included here, of course, as are three other tales from the ’40s. The outrageously sensational stories of the 1950s and ’60s are represented in five blockbusters, two of which are drawn by legendary Superman pencil Curt Swan, and two of which are done by another legend, Wayne Boring. Much of the ’70s are wisely skipped over, except for Elliot S. Maggin’s seminal 1972 story “Must There Be a Superman?”
Getting to the ’80s means getting a fresh new perspective on Superman, especially in “The Living Legends of Superman,” also by Maggin, which appeared in the 400th issue of Superman’s monthly comic.
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