Read more
Klappentext Containing 22 long-out-of-print stories, this collection shines the spotlight on bygone superheroes from the dawn of the comic-book format, including Wonder Man, Spacehawk, Blue Bolt, and Rex Dexter. It also contains artwork by such comics luminaries as Fletcher Hanks, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and Basil Wolverton. Zusammenfassung The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in thelate 1930s by a hungry and talented group of artists and writers barely out oftheir teens! flying by the seat of their pants to come up with something new!exciting! and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they createdflourishes to this day in practically all visual media. Supermen! collects thebest and the brightest of this first generation! including Jack Cole! WillEisner! Bill Everett! Gardner Fox! Lou Fine! Fletcher Hanks! Jack Kirby! JerrySiegel! Joe Shuster! and Basil Wolverton. Readers expecting to find anAll-American group of altruistic do-gooders are in for quite a jolt. As JonathanLethem writes in his Foreword! “A collection like Supermen! works like areverse-neutron bomb to assumptions about the birth of the superhero image: ittears down the orderly structures of theory and history and leaves the figuresstanding in full view! staring back at us in all their defiant disorientingparticularity! their blazing strangeness.” Handsomely designed andproduced in full color! Supermen! contains twenty full-length stories! tenfull-sized covers! a generous selection of vintage promotional ads! andcomprehensive background notes by editor Greg Sadowski. This anthology isindispensable to anyone interested in the origins of superheroes and the historyof the comic book form.
