{"id":842,"date":"2013-03-06T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T22:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/?p=842"},"modified":"2013-03-06T22:02:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:02:27","slug":"hey-kids-comics-volume-2-episode-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2013\/03\/06\/hey-kids-comics-volume-2-episode-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Kids, Comics!, volume 2, episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father-son duo of Andrew and Michael Leyland are back at it again on “Hey Kids, Comics!” In a recent episode, the Leylands continued to celebrate the Man of Steel’s 75th anniversary with part three of their series, “Happy Birthday, Superman!”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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With this installment, the guys have moved firmly into the Silver Age and the swingin’ ’60s — including the period with Jerry Siegel returned to DC Comics and the character he co-created with Joe Shuster more than two decades previous.<\/p>\n

Among the stories discussed in the episodes are Siegel’s classic, “The Death of Superman” from SUPERMAN #149. As mentioned when Billy Hogan and I discussed the story<\/a>, this is one of Siegel’s greatest Superman stories and one to certainly not be missed.<\/p>\n

They also turn their attention to Siegel’s 12-page “The Sweetheart Superman Forgot” from SUPERMAN #165, a gut-wrenching tale of amnesia and lost love, also considered by many to be among the greatest tales from Siegel’s second run on the character — and a highlight of the Silver Age era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The father-son duo of Andrew and Michael Leyland are back at it again on “Hey Kids, Comics!” In a recent episode, the Leylands continued to celebrate the Man of Steel’s 75th anniversary with part three of their series, “Happy Birthday, … 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":[237,225,126,111,41,84,122,229,230,21,231,146,44,63,85,60,81,61,232,121,115,64,233,238,86,24,16,22,47,235],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hey-kids-comics-podcasts","category-podcasts","tag-aquaman","tag-batman","tag-bizarro","tag-bottle-city-of-kandor","tag-clark-kent","tag-cosmic-boy","tag-daily-planet","tag-flash","tag-green-arrow","tag-green-kryptonite","tag-imaginary-story","tag-jimmy-olsen","tag-legion-of-super-heroes","tag-lex-luthor","tag-lightning-lad","tag-linda-lee-danvers","tag-lois-lane","tag-lori-lemaris","tag-lucy-lane","tag-perry-white","tag-phantom-zone","tag-red-kryptonite","tag-robin","tag-sally-selwyn","tag-saturn-girl","tag-silver-age","tag-supergirl","tag-superman","tag-superman-comic","tag-wonder-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}