Superman: The Silver Age Newspaper Dailies 1: 1958-1961

by Swan, Curt (CON); Boring, Wayne (CON); Kay, Stan (CON); Mullaney, Dean (CON); Siegel, Jerry (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781613776667
• ISBN10: 1613776667
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-08-13
• Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors

Summary

The Man of Steel comes to the Library of American Comics! In partnership with DC Entertainment, the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning imprint will produce deluxe archival editions of the Superman newspaper strip that ran from 1939-1966. The Dailies will be released in three sub-sets, starting with The Silver Age, then The Atomic Age, and finally, The Golden Age. (Sundays will be released in a separate, concurrent series.) These Silver Age classics have never been reprinted. The first volume boasts art by Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, and Stan Kaye, as Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel scripts stories by Otto Binder, Robert Bender, Jerry Coleman, and a new version of his own classic "Superman Returns to Krypton!" The book includes almost 750 strips, the complete episodes from April 6, 1959 to August 12, 1961. This is the series Superman fans have been waiting for!

Author Biography

Jerry Siegel (1914-1996) is best known as the co-creator of the world's longest published superhero, Superman, with Joe Shuster. He scripted the characrter on and off until 1967, and also worked on numerous other comic series.

Wayne Boring was born in Minnesota in 1905 and studied art in his hometown, as well as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 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.