The Adventures of Superman. Based on the Cartoon Character Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Illustrations by Joe Shuster.

LOWTHER, George; Illustrations by Joe Shuster.

Item Number: 140607

New York: Random House, 1942.

First edition of the first Superman novel. Octavo, original cloth. With frontispiece, illustrated title page, nine full-page illustrations (four in color) and numerous illustrations. Illustrated by Joe Shuster. Foreword by Josette Frank. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

"Listen to me, son… It strikes me now. I called ye a—a superman, and that's what ye be. Remember that. You're Superman!" (page 57). Boyhood friends Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created America's first and most iconic comic book superhero. The Man of Steel debuted in Action Comics #1 (1938). He soon made the leap to radio, cinema and prose, and his "dynamic personality… [became] incorporated into Western contemporary mythology" (Clute & Nicholls).