(1999)
Chronicle Books,
1999 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Volume
- ?
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- ?
- Barcode
- ?
- Editing
- Vin Sullivan (Original Editor); M.C. Gaines (Original Editor, uncredited)
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- 7.25" x 10"
- Binding
- saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
"Reprinted by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, Calif., by arrangement with DC Comics."
Came in the Superman Masterpiece Edition box set which also included a statue and a copy of Superman: The Golden Age by Les Daniels.
Came in the Superman Masterpiece Edition box set which also included a statue and a copy of Superman: The Golden Age by Les Daniels.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Superman #1 [Masterpiece Edition] (Chronicle Books, 1999 series)](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/674/w200/674155.jpg?-2287862455308308569)
[Two page origin of Superman]
Superman / comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Ma (Mary) Kent (intro); Pa Kent (intro); Krypton
- Synopsis
- After the planet Krypton blows up, a couple finds a baby in a rocket and adopt him. The young boy grows up to be Superman.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
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[Clark Kent Gets a Job]
Superman / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Clark Kent; George Taylor (intro; not named); Bea Carroll (villain)
- Synopsis
- Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Star, but is turned down until Superman stops a lynching and Clark phones in the story. Then Superman gets singer Bea Carroll to confess to the murder of Jack Kennedy.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
-
[The Coming of Superman]
Superman / comic story / 12 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; George Taylor (intro, not named); Lois Lane (intro); Daily Star; Evelyn Curry; Bea Carroll (villain); Butch Matson (villain); Senator Barrows (villain); Alex Greer (villain)
- Synopsis
- Superman breaks into the Governor's mansion to stop the execution of an innocent woman. Lois is kidnapped by gangsters, no thanks to that spineless milksop Clark Kent, but she is rescued by Superman! Superman also tackles a corrupt Senator in Washington.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939]) which is reprinted
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938)
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[Revolution in San Monte]
Superman / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Alex Greer (villain); Emil Norvell (villain); Lois Lane; Lola Cortez; George Taylor (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Clark Kent and Lois Lane go to San Monte in South America to cover the war brewing. Superman proves the war is being fomented by munitions manufacturers.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939]) which is reprinted
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2 (July 1938)
-
[Superman & Action Comics Invite You to Become a Charter Member of the Supermen of America]
Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages
Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength--!
Superman / comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Krypton
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
-
Indexer Notes
Adapted (not reprinted) from page 1 in Action Comics #1.
[The Blakely Mine Disaster]
Superman / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Clark Kent; George Taylor; Stanislaw Kober; Thornton Blakely (villain)
- Synopsis
- Clark investigates accidents in a shoddily run mine.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939]) which is reprinted
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #3 (August 1938)
-
[Superman Plays Football]
Superman / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Coach Randall (villain); Tommy Burke; Mary; Wallace Dodd (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Superman impersonates a football player to straighten out a fixed game.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939]) which is reprinted
- from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #4 (September 1938)
-
- Keywords
- football
[no title indexed]
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boys and Girls: Meet the creators of the one and only Superman - America's Greatest Adventure Strip!
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Superman (inset); Jerry Siegel (photo); Joe Shuster (photo)
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
-
[Biff Dugan]
Superman / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (illustration)
- Inks
- Joe Shuster (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Biff Dugan (intro, villain); Sergeant Blake
- Synopsis
- After Superman eludes Sergeant Blake by changing to Clark Kent, Clark blackmails the detective into allowing him a jailhouse interview with Biff Dugan. When Dugan escapes, Clark switches to Superman and returns Dugan to his cell.
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
-
[Pin-Up]
Superman / illustration / 1 page
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #[1] ([Summer 1939])
-
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Superman -
1.
[Two page origin of Superman]
Superman -
2.
[Clark Kent Gets a Job]
Superman -
3.
[The Coming of Superman]
Superman -
4.
[Revolution in San Monte]
Superman -
5.
[Superman & Action Comics Invite You to Become a Charter Member of the Supermen of America]
Superman -
6.
Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength--!
Superman -
7.
[The Blakely Mine Disaster]
Superman -
8.
[Superman Plays Football]
Superman -
9.
["Boys and Girls: Meet the creators of the one and only Superman - America's Greatest Adventure Strip!"]
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10.
[Biff Dugan]
Superman -
11.
[House Advertisement]
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12.
[Pin-Up]
Superman -
13.
[Ads]
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- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
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- Jim Van Dore
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