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Other printings & variants
Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies #[nn]
Original Edition
1971 · 10.00 USD · 396 pages
On sale 1971-12-14
Synopsis
A rocketship, carrying an infant, rockets from the planet Krypton as it blows up, and lands on the Earth where a couple named the Kents find the baby inside the rocket and eventually adopt him. This infant boy grows up to be Superman.
Credits
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell, Jerry Siegel, Bill Finger, Don C. Cameron, Al Schwartz, Edmond Hamilton, Bill Woolfolk, Otto Binder, Leo Dorfman, Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy, Wayne Boring, Leo Nowak, Al Wenzel, Ed Dobrotka, Sam Citron, Ira Yarbrough, John Sikela, Al Plastino, Win Mortimer, Curt Swan, Kurt Schaffenberger, Neal Adams, Ross Andru
- Inks
- Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy, Siegel and Shuster Studio, Leo Nowak, John Sikela, George Roussos, Sam Citron, Ira Yarbrough, Stan Kaye, Al Plastino, Win Mortimer, Kurt Schaffenberger, George Klein, Neal Adams, Mike Esposito, John Forte, Murphy Anderson, Jack Abel, Dick Giordano
- Letters
- Joe Shuster, Ben Oda, John Costanza
- Editor
- Linda Sunshine
- Background
- Joe Shuster
- Finished pencils
- Ed Dobrotka
- Finishes) [as joe shuster] (signed
- Leo Nowak
- Layouts
- Joe Shuster
- Logo design
- Joe Shuster
- Pages 1-8 see notes
- John Fischetti
- Pages 9-12
- Stan Kaye
- Pencil layouts
- Joe Shuster
- See notes
- Joe Shuster, Jack Adler
- Superman #174
- Ira Schnapp
- Superman #198
- Gaspar Saladino
- Superman figure
- Wayne Boring
Notes
Revised as: Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, 1983 series)
The original edition has a red cloth cover underneath the dustjacket (in addition to the brand and indicia publisher). There is no ISBN. There is a Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-175018. Printed in the U.S.A. Spine bears the number 0-517-L07162.
Later editions also introduce minor interior changes, noted in the index at the sequence level.
Printed in the U.S.A.
On sale date is Library of Congress copyright record publication date.
Reprinted from
- Action Comics #2— black and white
- Superman #[1]
- Superman #12
- Superman #13— black and white
- Superman #14
- Superman #17— page 7 cut
- Superman #18
- Superman #19— black and white, and Siegel and Shuster credit removed
- Superman #23— black and white
- Superman #26
- Superman #30— black and white, with the Siegel and Shuster credit removed
- Superman #38
- Superman #41
- Superman #45— black and white; and modified (see Notes)
- Superman #50
- Adventure Comics #128— black and white
- Superman #53— black and white
- Superman #62— black and white
- Superman #76— black and white
- Superman #78— black and white
- Superman #88— black and white
- Superman #129— black and white
- Superman #139— black and white
- Superman #140— black and white
- Superman #142— black and white
- Superman #143— black and white
- Superman #144— black and white
- Superman #233— black and white
- Action Comics #398— partial black and white
- Action Comics #400— black and white