Jerry Siegel's & Joe Shuster's Science Fiction: The Reign of the Super-Man The Advance Guard of Future Civilization |
|
| Author:
| Shuster, Joe
Siegel, Jerry |
| ISBN: | 978-1-329-98811-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
| Publisher: | Lulu Press, Inc.
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.95Contact Supplier contact
|
Book Description:
|
High quality reprint of "the Reign of the Super-man," the very first "superman" story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.Not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment.The story has all the main elements of the superman myth: a bald super-villain, an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings, telescopic-vision, aliens, and an indomitable quest for...
More DescriptionHigh quality reprint of "the Reign of the Super-man," the very first "superman" story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.Not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment.The story has all the main elements of the superman myth: a bald super-villain, an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings, telescopic-vision, aliens, and an indomitable quest for absolute power.It was originally published on Science Fiction - The Advance Guard of Future Civilization #3 (Jan. 1933), one of the very first fanzine to be created, which Siegel and Shuster developed with a typewriter and mimeographic machine for printing.Also collected for the first time: "Goober the Mighty", Siegel's Tarzan parody, Stiletto Vance the vain detective, and other raw gems the creators of Superman developed for the Torch, the High School newspaper they worked for.