{"id":788,"date":"2013-02-15T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-03-06T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:52:41","slug":"hey-kids-comics-volume-2-episode-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2013\/02\/15\/hey-kids-comics-volume-2-episode-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Kids, Comics!, volume 2, episode 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superman turns 75 this year, and celebrations of the Man of Steel’s anniversary are already in full swing.<\/p>\n

One podcast celebrating Superman’s seven-and-a-half centuries is Hey Kids, Comics!<\/a> The show, hosted by father and son duo Andrew and Micheal Leyland, launched in early 2011, looking at comics from all corners of the genre. Not only is the show a consistently enjoyable listen, it is unique in that it presents a multi-generational look at classic comic book stories both new and old.<\/p>\n

In the most-recent episode, the Leylands kicked off part one of their newest series, “Happy Birthday, Superman!”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As this is the first episode of their anniversary celebration, the Leylands kick things off in style by looking at a set of stories all written by Jerry Siegel himself — a couple of which were also illustrated by Joe Shuster!<\/p>\n

First up is a look at the first half of the historic SUPERMAN #1. Written by Siegel and illustrated by Shuster, these stories were published originally in ACTION COMICS #1 and #2 and tell Superman’s first published adventures as he frees someone wrongly accused a murder, brings the true killer to justice, then stops a case of spousal abuse, before taking on corrupt politicians, munitions manufacturer and international war. It’s Superman in his purest form… by the men that dreamed him up. <\/p>\n

The guys then take a look at the Superman story from ACTION COMICS #3, a tale since titled “The Blakely Mine Disaster, and again brought to you by Siegel and Shuster.<\/p>\n

They then move on to ACTION COMICS #23, which features Superman’s first encounter with a maniacal scientist known only as… Luthor. Join Siegel and Shuster (with a little help from Paul Cassidy on inks) as they introduce “the greatest criminal mind of our time!”<\/p>\n

And finally, the guys close out the episode with a look at the classic “Superman, Matinee Idol” from SUPERMAN #19. In it, Siegel and Shuster (with a little help from Ed Dobrotka and John Sikela) tell a tale of Clark Kent and Lois Lane going on a date to see a feature — which just happens to be the secret-identity-revealing Fleischer Bros. Superman cartoon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Superman turns 75 this year, and celebrations of the Man of Steel’s anniversary are already in full swing. One podcast celebrating Superman’s seven-and-a-half centuries is Hey Kids, Comics! The show, hosted by father and son duo Andrew and Micheal Leyland, … Continue reading →<\/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":[243,8],"tags":[43,191,190,41,186,189,193,123,32,12,13,135,63,81,187,188,185,192,22,47],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hey-kids-comics-podcasts","category-podcasts","tag-action-comics","tag-alex-greer","tag-bea-carroll","tag-clark-kent","tag-ed-dobrotka","tag-evelyn-curry","tag-fleischer-cartoons","tag-george-taylor","tag-golden-age","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-john-sikela","tag-lex-luthor","tag-lois-lane","tag-mary-kent","tag-mr-kent","tag-paul-cassidy","tag-senator-barrows","tag-superman","tag-superman-comic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}