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.

$6,000.00

Item Number: 147383

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. Association copy, inscribed by the author to a fellow writer on the front free endpaper, “For Mrs Weber Super-Columnist! George Lowther.” The recipient, Lenore Mattingly Weber as a novelist and columnist. Her first book, Wind on the Prairie, was published in 1929. From 1930 through 1962 she wrote short stories for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, and Good Housekeeping. Illustrated by Joe Shuster. Foreword by Josette Frank. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

"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).