{"id":513,"date":"2007-06-20T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=513"},"modified":"2007-06-20T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T07:34:14","slug":"superman-chronicles-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/20\/superman-chronicles-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Chronicles vol 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/supchron.jpg\" alt=\"Superman Chronicles vol 1\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Jerry Siegel<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Joe Shuster<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-259-2<\/p>\n<p>A welcome soft-cover collection of the earliest stories of the Man of Steel and quite literally the birth of a genre if not an actual art form. Here is the crude, rough, uncontrollable wish-fulfilling exuberance of a righteous and superior man dealing out summary justice to wife-beaters, reckless drivers and exploitative capitalists, as well as thugs and ne&#8217;er-do-wells which captured the imagination of a generation. Here they are presented in totality and chronological order from <strong>Action Comics<\/strong> #1 (June 1938) through #13 (June 1939), his appearance from <strong>New York&#8217;s World Fair <\/strong>No. 1 (also from June 1939) and culminating with the landmark first issue of his own solo title from July of that year.<\/p>\n<p>As well as cheap price and no-nonsense design and presentation, and not withstanding the historical significance of the material presented within, there is a magnificent bonus for any one who hasn&#8217;t read some or all of these tales before. They are astonishingly well-told and engrossing mini-epics that can still grip the reader.<\/p>\n<p>In a world where <strong>Angels With Dirty Faces<\/strong>, <strong>Bringing Up Baby<\/strong> and <strong>The Front Page<\/strong> are as familiar to our shared cultural consciousness as the latest episode of <strong>Dr Who<\/strong> or the next <em>Bond<\/em> movie, the dress, manner and idiom in these near-seventy year old stories can&#8217;t jar or confuse. They are simply timeless, enthralling, and great.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Jerry Siegel &amp; Joe Shuster (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-259-2 A welcome soft-cover collection of the earliest stories of the Man of Steel and quite literally the birth of a genre if not an actual art form. Here is the crude, rough, uncontrollable wish-fulfilling exuberance of a righteous and superior man dealing out summary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/06\/20\/superman-chronicles-vol-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman Chronicles vol 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-8h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}