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Supermen! (Paperback)
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
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A seventieth anniversary commemorative compilation of first-generation comic-book hero adventures explores the ways in which the earliest superheroes were typically anonymous vigilantes who used "anything goes" approaches to fighting crime, in an anthology that includes the notorious 1939 Wonder Man debut. Original. This classy Fantagraphics compendium of the best of best of the nascent days of comic book superheroes divides up its excerpts and cover images by the publications that ran the comics. Proceeding simultaneously in a rough chronology, SUPERMEN begins with the first edition of Comics Magazine from May 1936. Other highlights include Will Eisner and Lou Fine's work on "The Flame," as well as Ogden Whitney's "Charlie Chan" illustrations published in Big Shot Comics. Editor Greg Sadowski includes the work of Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Cole, and of course Jack Kirby as well. Author and revamper of OMEGA THE UNKNOWN Jonathan Lethem provides an introduction to this colorful romp through comics' adventurous early years.
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- Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
- Subgenre: Graphic Novels / Superheroes
- Date Published: April 20, 2009
- Release Date: April 20, 2009
- Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
- Pages: 208
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-18-3752
- ASIN: B002QO1ZV6
- Catalog #: 11731850
- ISBN: 9781560979715
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 10.5 inches length x 7.5 inches width x 1 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 1.64 pounds.
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Reviewer: Douglas Wolk, (New York Times Book Review)
"[A] rambunctious anthology of the earliest superhero stories--gaudy, crude, infernally potent things, cranked out by scrappy young cartoonists who were more concerned with what the likes of Silver Streak, Yarko the Great and Skyrocket Steele could do than with what they might mean."
Reviewer: Cory Doctorow, (Boing Boing)
"The forematter (a lovely, insightful, nostalgic essay by Jonathan Lethem) and the afterword (a collection of bibliographic and historical notes on each strip) make perfect bookends for the hot stuff in the middle. This is pure and unadulterated Id, the kind of thing that inspired a moral panic about the corruption of the young. It's every bit as potent today."
