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DescriptionThis hardcover retrospective of the Man of Steel includes stories from Action Comics number 0, numbered 1-2, number 137, number 242, number 544, number 775, and number 900, Adventures of Superman number 498, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, Superman number 11, number 17, number 53, number 75-76, number 141, number 149, number 247, and number 400, Superman Annual number 11, and a 1940 story from Look Magazine. Author descriptionBorn 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. |