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Summary: Great Stuff!
Review: The Superman Dailies of the 40's were not the most enthralling comic strips ever written but this book presents them in their best light. My only complaint and thus the 4 stars, was they stopped the book in the middle (?) of a storyline just one episode into 1940. I think they could've finished the storyline then went onto the next book which I hope will be released soon. The intro materials were short but absolutely interesting.All in all this is a great companion to any comic book collection and a nice addition to the Batman Dailies Kitchen Sink published years ago. I can't wait for the Sunday Strips or the rest of the dailies.
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Summary: Great Stuff!
Review: The Superman Dailies of the 40's were not the most enthralling comic strips ever written but this book presents them in their best light. My only complaint and thus the 4 stars, was they stopped the book in the middle (?) of a storyline just one episode into 1940. I think they could've finished the storyline then went onto the next book which I hope will be released soon. The intro materials were short but absolutely interesting. All in all this is a great companion to any comic book collection and a nice addition to the Batman Dailies Kitchen Sink published years ago. I can't wait for the Sunday Strips or the rest of the dailies.
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Summary: Superman the Superchauvanist!
Review: These comic strips are a document of their times. Violent and chauvanistic. Superman terrorizes one criminal into having a heart attack, which doesn't stop him from giving the same treatment to another criminal. Lois Lane strives to get off the LoveLorn page - "Stay there, it's safer." Makes you want to grit your teeth. Doesn't mean these strips should be censored or made 'politically correct.' Not at all. Read, and realize how far we've come. But - how far have we come??
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Summary: Superman the Superchauvanist!
Review: These comic strips are a document of their times. Violent and chauvanistic. Superman terrorizes one criminal into having a heart attack, which doesn't stop him from giving the same treatment to another criminal. Lois Lane strives to get off the LoveLorn page - "Stay there, it's safer." Makes you want to grit your teeth. Doesn't mean these strips should be censored or made 'politically correct.' Not at all. Read, and realize how far we've come. But - how far have we come??
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Summary: A really good read!
Review: This wonderful book is a collection of Superman comics from the newspapers. (You know, one horizontal strip of three or four black-and-white frames.) There are nine *complete* episodes here: Episode 11 (1/8/40-2/8/40) through Episode 19 (12/2/40-3/8/41). Episodes 11 and 12 entangle America and Superman in a European war. (The dictator of Rutland has a funny uniform and sports a small moustache, looking vaguely familiar.) But my favorite is definitely the last, where Superman decides to help a meek, downtrodden man find his confidence, rise to his true level of competence, and marry the woman he loves. This is a very nice collection of cartoons. Superman is not as "super" as in later stories: the newest Superman has biceps bigger than this one's head, and his flying isn't always 100%. However, the stories are interesting and fun to read. I like the comic-strip format, which makes the book easy to put down and pick up again. Most of all, though, I enjoyed a really good read! If you like Superman, or super-heroes in general, then I highly recommend this book to you.
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Summary: Beautiful Presentation Of This Historic Material
Review: When comics publishers want their material presented just right, they go to Denis Kitchen, and that's what DC has done here. Jerry Siegel's and Joe Shuster's early "Superman" work was not terribly sophisticated, but it is historically important for its cultural impact and for the genre it created. It's also fun to read, and in this very attractive slipcased, hardcover edition, fun to own. The early newspaper version of Superman may have been superior to the contemporary comic book version- there is an excellent, very funny lookalike story in which Superman trades places with an even meeker and milder Clark Kent type for a day and makes trouble for various bullies. The presentation here gets an A plus, with extra material, informative commentary, and another beautiful cover (and interior) design by the ever-excellent Peter Poplaski. This book, as well as the Sundays volume, perfectly compliments a similar treatment afforded to the "Batman" dailies and Sundays of the same period. Marvel should go this route with the early "Spider-Man" strips by Stan Lee and John Romita.
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