Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 information
Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941

Genres: Superhero

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Writer: Lou Fine

Artist: Will Eisner

Publication date: December 12, 2009

Status: Completed           Views: 12,475           Bookmark

Summary:

The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a talented and hungry group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to create something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in comic books, video, movies, fine art, advertising, and practically all other media. Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton. If the reader is expecting to find an All-American group of altruistic do-gooders, he in for quite a jolt. As Jonathan Lethem writes in his Foreword, “A collection like Supermen! works like a reverse-neutron bomb to assumptions about the birth of the superhero image: it tears down the orderly structures of theory and history and leaves the figures standing in full view, staring back at us in all their defiant disorienting particularity, their blazing strangeness.” Beautifully designed and produced in full color, Supermen! contains twenty full-length stories, ten full-sized covers, a generous selection of vintage promotional ads, and comprehensive end notations by editor Greg Sadowski, making it indispensable to anyone interested in the origins of superheroes and the history of the comic book form.

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Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 TPB (Part 2) 2/16/2022
Supermen! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941 TPB (Part 1) 2/16/2022
 
 
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