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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401206307
ISBN: 1401206301
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: February 01, 2005
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: February 01, 2005
Sales Rank: 239531
Studio: DC Comics
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From the minds and hands of Superman creators Jerry Seigel Joe Shuster come the stories that started it all. This hardcover collectionincludes the early SUPERMAN comics that recount the Golden Age adventuresof the Man of Steel. From his perilous escape from the doomed planetKrypton to his high-flying adventures in Metropolis and everything inbetween, this is a must have edition for the discerning Superman collectoror fan.
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I was going to point out that the chief value of reading the first four issues of "Superman" collected in Volume 1 of the "Superman Archives" was nostalgia, but then I realized that the term really applies to the past that you remember, and I was not reading "Superman" comic books back in 1939. Actually, reading any of the Superman titles was something I only did when we went to visit my cousins because their sun porch had a treasure trove of comic books. The comic books I remember buying on a ... Read More
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Nothing like the original stuff which came out before I was old enough to read. A 'must have' for anyone serious about the classic comics.
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The book was recived with in a week of sale and was shipped very well.
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This is actually some great stuff. I think the early Superman stories are good examples of exciting storytelling with interesting social commentary.
For example, the first Superman story contains a none-too subtle anticaptial punishment message, as our man saves a lady from an execution and a man form a lynching (remember, this is 1938). The second shows Supe stopping a war that is concocted by munitions manufactureres (an early anti-WW2 message).
Along with that, reading these ... Read More
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The reprints are gorgeous and in a wonderful hardcover that shouldn't fall apart too quickly. The text prefacing the book is boring and unneccessary, mostly, this book just costs waaayyyy too much. I would've preferred to get it in comic book format for about 10 dollars, but they no longer reprint this stuff. The stories aren't very good, but it's interesting to read in it's amateurishness and see how things originally were intended.
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