A few years back, I bought a copy of “Superman: The War Years,” part of a “war years” themed series of hardcovers (along with Batman and Wonder Woman) curated by Roy Thomas. As much as I love World War II history and fully respect Roy’s knowledge of said history and Golden Age comics in general, …
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"We had a reception room and a main office; Joe worked in there, and Wayne Boring and myself." - Paul Cassidy, Interview with James Vance, 1998 Shortly after he premiered in 1938, Superman had become a sensation. In order to keep up with the increasingly heavy workload and deadlines, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster …
DC continues their well-received run of Omnibuses using periods in comic book history as themes, and Superman is once again the beneficiary of a great oversized hardcover book collecting his earliest adventures! Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 is of a similar quality to its predecessor- nice paper, vibrant colors, sewn binding for flexibility …
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I've always had a fascination with the Golden Age. In it we see the very beginnings of science fiction and comics as we know them, and in a lot of ways, in its raw form, the metal from which all other stories are fashioned. It may be different from what we know, stories and characters …
As a kid, I wasn't much of a Superman fan, and I certainly wasn't a fan of any comic book that was published before 1990. I was deprived, I know. The older, wiser me has developed a new appreciation for Superman, the history of the comic book medium as well as the medium itself as …
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