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

Greg Sadowski

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Language: English

Published by Fantagraphics Books Apr 2009, 2009

1560979712 / 9781560979715

Series: Book 1 of 1 - Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936–1941

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Neuware - '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.'--from the foreword by Jonathan Lethem The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a hungry and talented group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to come up with something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in practically all visual 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. Readers expecting to find an All-American group of altruistic do-gooders are 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, nine full-sized covers, a generous selection of vintage promotional ads, and comprehensive background notes by editor Greg Sadowski. This anthology is indispensable to anyone interested in the origins of superheroes and the history of the comic book form.…

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Title
Supermen! : The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941
Author
Greg Sadowski
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Apr 2009
Publication year
2009
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Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
1560979712
ISBN 13
9781560979715
Item weight
748 grams
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262x191x20 mm
Series
Book 1 of 1: Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936–1941

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