Superman

by Schwartz, Alvin; Finger, Bill; Boring, Wayne; Waid, Mark

• ISBN13: 9781684050611
• ISBN10: 1684050618
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-01-30
• Publisher: Library of Amer Comics

Summary

Superman’s newspaper comic strips are among the rarest of all Superman collectibles. This comprehensive series helps remedy that gap in the Superman by bringing back into print every one of the Sunday newspaper strips.

The Man of Steel stars in thirteen classic adventures as the 1950s “Atomic Age” comes to a close. Some of the stories are original to the newspaper strip, while others were alternate versions of tales that were simultaneously published in the regular comic books. One of the featured adaptations is “Superman Versus the Futuremen,” written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger, which retells Superman’s origin. This concluding volume of Superman’s Atomic Age Sundays reprints all strips July 1, 1956 to October 11, 1959

Author Biography

Wayne Boring was born in Minnesota in 1905 and studied art in his hometown, as well as the Chicago Art Institute. He became one of Joe Shuster’s early assistants in the late 1930s and eventually assumed the full drawing duties. His rendition of Superman became the most recognizable version during the 1950s and ‘60s.

Alvin Schwartz was born in in New York in 1916 and began writing comics in 1939. He was a prolific writer for DC Comics in the 1940s and ‘50s, and wrote the most of the Superman newspaper strips throughout the 1950s.

Bill Finger was born in 1914 and Denver, Colorado, and is best known as the co-creator of Batman. He also co-created Robin, the Joker, Green Lantern, and other characters in a lengthy career that began in the 1930s.