Boys of steel : the creators of Superman
(2008)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/741.5/SIEGEL,J/NOB
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : A.A. Knopf, [2008]
©2008
©2008
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780375938023 (reinforced), 0375938028 (reinforced), 9780375838026 (trade) :, 0375838023 (trade) :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book
760
760L
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