Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941

by Jack Cole, Jack Kirby, Dick Briefer, et al.

A collection like SUPERMEN! works like a reverse-neutron bomb to assumptions about the birth of the superhero image: it tears down the orderly structures of theory and history and leaves the figures standing in full view, staring back at us in all their defiant disorienting particularity, their blazing strangeness.--from the foreword by Jonathan Lethem

The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560979712
• ISBN13: 9781560979715
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher