SUPERMAN (1939-86; 2006-11) #3
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Joe Shuster train cover/art (Winter 1940)
Superman #3 features one of the most iconic train covers in the history of comics, hot on the heels of Action #13 as Joe Shuster's top images of the Man of Steel amidst the railroad tracks. Superman is caught here in mid-leap while carrying a stunned child whose awed look says it all about the Superman mythos. This classic cover also ties into the lead story of "The Orphanage Adventure," which is an assemblage of Superman daily newspaper strips. This classic story has Lois Lane joining fellow Daily Star reporter Clark Kent in going after an evil orphanage superintendent. "Superman and the Smugglers" is another reprint of a classic daily strip featuring the early competition between Lois and Clark. It includes the infamous "faster than a speeding bullet" scene which had newspaper editors complaining that Jerry Siegel and Shuster were getting way too unrealistic. "Superman and the Dam" and "Superman's Phony Manager" (aka "The Man Who Sold Superman") are reprints from, respectively, Action #5 and Action #6.
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Artist Information
Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1.
Joe Shuster train cover/art (Winter 1940)
Superman #3 features one of the most iconic train covers in the history of comics, hot on the heels of Action #13 as Joe Shuster's top images of the Man of Steel amidst the railroad tracks. Superman is caught here in mid-leap while carrying a stunned child whose awed look says it all about the Superman mythos. This classic cover also ties into the lead story of "The Orphanage Adventure," which is an assemblage of Superman daily newspaper strips. This classic story has Lois Lane joining fellow Daily Star reporter Clark Kent in going after an evil orphanage superintendent. "Superman and the Smugglers" is another reprint of a classic daily strip featuring the early competition between Lois and Clark. It includes the infamous "faster than a speeding bullet" scene which had newspaper editors complaining that Jerry Siegel and Shuster were getting way too unrealistic. "Superman and the Dam" and "Superman's Phony Manager" (aka "The Man Who Sold Superman") are reprints from, respectively, Action #5 and Action #6.
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Artist Information
Joseph Shuster was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, in Action Comics #1.