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Rare Siegel & Shuster Superman Sunday color comic strip proof art page
It’s SUPERMAN! Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another planet, and it’s time for another Supervator.com blog to stir your senses. Many years ago, a company called Kitchen Sink Press came out with a compilation of the Man of Steel’s 1930′s and 1940′s golden age comic strip reprints, and they called their trade paperback/tpb “Superman: the Sunday Classics”. As it turns out, several years ago we acquired the complete printer’s proof artwork pages. Every single page. Since getting our hands on the entire one of a kind collection, we were hooked and were initially reluctant to make any of these pages for sale.
Since then, we have loosened our death grip on these old 1990′s printer proofs and have made them available via our eBay Store. Click the photo for the link to check current availability and to see larger images.
These things are just gorgeous, and I wish we’d done better scans of each page when we batch scanned them all for our records. I can’t recall for sure, but there may have been nearly 200 different proof art pages, all in living color, by the way.
They featured Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s 30′s and 40′s Sunday funnies newspaper exploits of our favorite superhero from Krypton and star of DC Comics title “Action Comics”.
Just take a look at the example we have here. Is that not gorgeous? Believe me, it’s better in person, and these pages were just meant to be framed! The late, great George Reeves and Christopher Reeve would be proud to see where their movie and tv serial namesake originated from. This particular page measures about 13 by 10 inches.
Back in the “GA” (Golden Age) of comics, Superman was the Man. To many he still is, and DC Comics has done a good job in my estimation in keeping their flagship character interesting. My first exposure to Superman was probably George Reeve’s guest appearance on the “I love Lucy” show with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, or maybe a 1960′s JLA comic book.
Thanks for reading, Kryptonites! See ya next blog!
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