Superman: The Golden Age Sundays 1946-1949

by Boring, Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781631401091
• ISBN10: 1631401092
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-11-18
• Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors

Summary

This second book in the Superman Sundays series collects nearly 170 sequential Sunday pages that have never been reprinted. These classic comics, beginning August 11, 1946 and continuing through October 16, 1949, fill another major gap in the Superman mythos.

In a full eighteen adventures, Superman’s travels take him around the globe, as well as through time and space. The Man of Steel solves the case of the Curiosity Crimes, becomes a rival for Cleopatra’s affections in ancient Egypt, is exposed to radiation that turns him into Superbabe, battles a prehistoric animal called a “Paleomatzoball” (!), reprises the “Superman's Service to Servicemen” series with a couple of good deeds for veterans, encounters an ancient civilization in the lost valley of Ru, meets up with Angus the talking dog, and to top it all off, witnesses Lois marrying Clark Kent—or does he?! It’s classic Superman fun written by Jerry Siegel and Alvin Schwartz, and drawn by Wayne Boring.

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.