Most Popular Books by Joe Shuster

Documenting the amazing back story of the world''s first Jewish superhero, Siegel and Shuster''s Funnyman is an important document of comics and Jewish history. Funnyman, aka Larry Davis, is a red-haired television comedian whose agent talks him into performing a superhero-like stunt in order to obtain publicity. This stunt goes wrong when Larry finds himself in a real crime scene. Larry stops this criminal, not knowing what he is doing is real until after the fact. Discovering that he enjoys fighting crime, Larry begins a career as the costumed crime fighter Funnyman.

High quality reprint of "the Reign of the Super-man," the very first "superman" story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment. The story has all the main elements of the superman myth: a bald super-villain, an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings, telescopic-vision, aliens, and an indomitable quest for absolute power. It was originally published on Science Fiction - The Advance Guard of Future Civilization #3 (Jan. 1933), one of the very first fanzine to be created, which Siegel and Shuster developed with a typewriter and mimeographic machine for printing. Also collected for the first time: "Goober the Mighty", Siegel''s Tarzan parody, Stiletto Vance the vain detective, and other raw gems the creators of Superman developed for the Torch, the High School newspaper they worked for.

"Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster"--P. facing t.p.

His incredible powers are legendary, his famous red-and-blue costume is unmistakable, and the S-shield emblazoned across his chest is iconic. Born Kal-El on the doomed planet Krypton, rocketed to Earth, and raised by the kindly Kents, he was destined to battle evil as Superman, the Man of Steel. Here''s your guide to absolutely everything about the high-flying hero who''s been thrilling comics fans for more than seventy years: an amazing A-to-Z compendium that spans the spectrum of all things Superman.

Reprints the first earliest adventures of Superman in chronological order, beginning with his first appearance in Action Comics in 1938.

The new Man of Steel faces his first real threat against a being who can steal his powers away, while his alter ego, Clark Kent, deals with a new woman in his life who is turning his world upside down.

Livewire surges ahead with a new cause, and only the Man of Steel has a chance of stopping her.

Superman and Batman - longtime allies - are at odds when confronted with an overwhelming crisis.