{"id":1243,"date":"2013-06-05T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2013-06-09T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T01:17:52","slug":"incoming-super-boys-by-brad-ricca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2013\/06\/05\/incoming-super-boys-by-brad-ricca\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming: &#8216;Super Boys&#8217; by Brad Ricca and Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out this week is &#8220;Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster \u2014 The Creators of Superman\u201d by author Brad Ricca.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coversuperboys.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1243]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coversuperboys-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster -- The Creators of Superman\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-997\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coversuperboys-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coversuperboys-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coversuperboys-677x1024.jpg 677w, http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/coversuperboys.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The book is only the second stand-alone biography about Siegel and Shuster, the first in straight literary prose and, perhaps most significantly, one of the first books period to explore in-depth their creation of characters beyond Superman.<\/p>\n<p>Much <a href=http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/tag\/super-boys-the-amazing-adventures-of-jerry-siegel-and-joe-shuster-the-creators-of-superman\/>already has been posted<\/a> on the blog about the book, which has drawn high praise from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Barnes &#038; Noble, the Superman Homepage, Diamond, as well as fellow fans of Siegel and Shuster, and comics history in general, such as Marc Tyler Nobleman, Cliff Biggers and Michael Sangiacomo, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This book is sure to be deserving of a place on the bookshelf of any fan of Siegel or Shuster. Head down to your favorite book seller and pick up your copy today.<\/p>\n<p>Also out this week is SUPERMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE OMNIBUS, Vol. 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/goldenageomnibus.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1243]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/goldenageomnibus-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus, Vol. 1\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/goldenageomnibus-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/goldenageomnibus-105x150.jpg 105w, http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/goldenageomnibus.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clocking in at nearly 800 pages, the massive hardcover contains nearly every Superman comic book story from the character&#8217;s first two years of publication. All of them were written by Siegel, many illustrated by Shuster, and the earliest tales in this book represent Siegel&#8217;s and Shuster&#8217;s most unfiltered and raw take on the character which became a near-overnight sensation.<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed breakdown of the book&#8217;s contents, <a href=http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2013\/01\/15\/upcoming-golden-age-superman-omnibus\/>see the post made when the book was solicited<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out this week is &#8220;Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster \u2014 The Creators of Superman\u201d by author Brad Ricca. The book is only the second stand-alone biography about Siegel and Shuster, the first in straight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2013\/06\/05\/incoming-super-boys-by-brad-ricca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[263,12,13,264,162],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-brad-ricca","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-super-boys-the-amazing-adventures-of-jerry-siegel-and-joe-shuster-the-creators-of-superman","tag-superman-the-golden-age-omnibus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}