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portada Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, From the Creators of Superman
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2010
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781932595789
ISBN13
9781932595789
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Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, From the Creators of Superman

Mel Gordon (Author) · Feral House · Paperback

Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, From the Creators of Superman - Mel Gordon

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Synopsis "Siegel and Shuster's Funnyman: The First Jewish Superhero, From the Creators of Superman"

Here is a kaleidoscopic analysis of Jewish humor as seen through Funnyman, a  little-known super-heroic invention by the creators of Superman. Included are complete comic-book stories and daily and Sunday newspaper panels from Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s creative fiasco.Siegel and Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland, sold the rights to their amazing and astonishingly lucrative comic book superhero to Detective Comics for $130 in 1938. Not only did they lose the ownership of the Superman character, they also agreed to write and illustrate it for ten years at ten dollars per page. Their contract with the DC publishers was soon heralded as the most foolish agreement in the history of American popular culture.After toiling on workman’s wages for a decade, Siegel and Shuster struggled to come up with a new superhero, one that would right their wrongs and prove that justice, fair-play, and zany craftsmanship was the true American way and would lead to ultimate victory. But when the naïve duo launched their new comic character Funnyman in 1947, it failed miserably. All the turmoil and personal disasters in Siegel and Shuster’s postwar life percolated into the comic strip.This book tells the back story of the unsuccessful strip and Siegel and Shuster’s ambition to have their funny Jewish superhero trump Superman.Mel Gordon is the author of Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.Thomas Andrae is the author of Batman and Me.

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Jaime Huerta Tuesday, July 25, 2023
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La última publicación del tandem Siegel y Shuster (los creadores de Superman) antes de su separación total. Interesante libro que explica el desarrollo del otro personaje de los padres del hombre de acero. Que no tuvo éxito. Porqué ? el libro lo explica ;-)

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