“Superman novelties are very popular this year!” - Santa Claus It came to my attention during this beautiful season that there was a Golden Age Superman tale from 1940 that I had never read! Superman’s Christmas Adventure is a one-shot special that was not part of any of the Supes ongoing books during this time, …
There can be no doubt that in the 1930s, many comic strip artists imitated the great Alex Raymond. I forget where I first read it, but Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) once visited Raymond’s studio in Connecticut, only to find Raymond copying a drawing of a horse from one of Foster’s strips. Foster’s response was “Alex, …
The sale of the rights to Superman by Siegel and Shuster to National Periodicals has been likened to the sale of Manhattan Island from the Native Americans. The purchase price of $130, as well as follow up questions about page rates, work for hire vs perpetual ownership and percentages of merchandise and licensing was a …
Continue reading $130: The Ongoing Saga of Jerry Siegel and Superman
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 …
Continue reading Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol.1 – A Review
The story of how Superman as a book came to be has been well told many times over. We all know that he was the product of two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland working hard during the Great Depression. We know that the character was drawn from various sources of pulp magazines and science fiction stories …
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