Supermen!

The First Wave of Comic-Book Heroes 1939-41. To commemorate the 70th anniversary of comics' most durable genre, Fantagraphics serves up this deluxe full-colour compilation dedicated to the earliest generation of superheroes.

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 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, Gardner Fox, 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.” Handsomely 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 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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