Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman Page #2
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and bouncing busiest off his chest.
By 1935, Jerry and Joe managed
to find steady work...
...in the new medium of comic books...
of the characters and situations found...
...in the shorter daily newspaper strips.
They churned out hundreds of routine
tales featuring swashbucklers...
... vampire-hunters, and private eyes.
All for a fledging company
called National Allied publishing...
...later to be known simply as DC...
...after one of its early successes,
Detective comics.
By 1938, DC was preparing
... that needed a lead feature.
Fortunately for Jerry and Joe...
... the company decided to take
a chance on Superman.
hit the newsstand.
It featured a full-color cover. . .
...boasted 68 pages of content
and sold for a dime.
At a time when an average American
worker made less than $ 25 a week.
In that first issue,
Superman didn't fly.
Instead, he leaped
from skyscraper to skyscraper.
He was also not as strong
But what he lacked in powers,
he more than made up for in attitude.
Depression-era headlines.
In 1938, we're a nation
on the verge of war. . .
. . .we are a nation that is new to this
concept of urbanization and urban crime. . .
. . .and Superman was originally
a social crusader.
He was beating up mine owners
who were mistreating their employees.
He was razing
defective buildings in Metropolis.
Action comics was a success.
And over the next years, Superman
developed a large and loyal following.
But as much as he resonated
with the public, so did his alter ego...
. . .the timid reporter, Clark Kent.
It's not the Ubermensch (German translation of Superman).
It's not the Germanic idea of the
Superman, the superior man of Nietzsche.
This is the greatness
of the meek, the miId.
Superman estabIished
the idea of somebody. . .
. . .who seems to be a meek, ordinary,
average person. . .
. . .and is really a superhero.
And it was a formula that virtually every
superhero owes a debt to even today.
In January, 1939...
...Superman made the leap from comic
book to newspaper comic strip.
And soon 20 million Americans
thrilled to his adventures every day.
That summer, DC took an even bolder
marketing strategy with the character...
...by featuring their superhero
in his very own comic book.
Superman became so popular
that they said:
''Why don't we create a comic book
just about that character?''
Which back then was very unusual.
Superman #1 one sold more
than a million copies.
And by the end of the year,
the Man of Steel was everywhere.
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