Daniels,
Les. Superman: The Golden Age.
Art
direction and design by Chip Kidd. San Francisco:
Chronicle Books, 1999. 96pp. ISBN 0-8118-2162-5 (hc).
[NOTE
#1: This book was sold as part of the "Superman Masterpiece
Edition" box set, along with a replica of the Superman #1 comic book
and a statue designed by Alex Ross, sculpted by Joe DeVitp, and colored
by Chris Ware. Apart from the comic story on pages 84-93, it
presents the contents, in re-fashioned form, of the first two chapters
of Daniels' book Superman: The Complete History.]
[NOTE #2: This design of this book includes numerous
brief side-bars. For completeness' sake, these side-bar pieces are
included
below, although they do not appear in the book's official Table of
Contents.]
Introduction bt Kirk Alyn ... 7
1 - CREATION ... 8
Pulp Fiction ... 11
"The Reign of the Superman" ... 12-13
The Super Sailor ... 16
Another Lois Lane ... 18
The Making of Metropolis ... 27
- 2 -
EXPLOSION ... 34
- May I Use Your Cape? ... 37
- [A eight early Superman Newspaper strips,
January 1939 - November 1941]
... 38-39
- In Our Last Episode ... 51
- Superman's Naughtiest Nemesis ... 72
- Superman by the Book ... 75
- Who the "L" Is Lana Lang? ... 76
- Complete Comics Story: "The Men Who
Had to Guard Superman!" [Bill Finger (s), Wayne Boring (p), Stan Kaye
(i); Superman #50
(September-October 1949)] ... 84-93