Superman Through the Ages! Forum

A new trade paperback from TwoMorrows covering the history of the Silver AND Bronze Age Superman has been announced on the www.twomorrows.com website!

THE KRYPTON COMPANION ($29 with Shipping costs included)

"224 page Trade Paperback - by Michael Eury
THE KRYPTON COMPANION unlocks the secrets of Superman’s Silver and Bronze Ages, the days when kryptonite came in multiple colors and super-pets scampered across the skies! Writer/editor Michael Eury explores the legacy of classic Superman editors MORT WEISINGER and JULIUS SCHWARTZ through all-new interviews with NEAL ADAMS, MURPHY ANDERSON, CARY BATES, RICH BUCKLER, NICK CARDY, JOSÉ LUIS GARCÍA-LÓPEZ, KEITH GIFFEN, ELLIOT S! MAGGIN, JIM MOONEY, DENNIS O’NEIL, BOB OKSNER, MARTIN PASKO, BOB ROZAKIS, JIM SHOOTER, LEN WEIN, MARV WOLFMAN, and other fan favorites! Plus: Super-artist CURT SWAN’s 1987 essay “Drawing Superman,” JERRY SIEGEL’s “lost” imaginary story “The Death of Clark Kent,” MARK WAID’s tribute to Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman’s appearances in the media and in Marvel Comics, and rare and previously unpublished artwork by Swan, Adams, WAYNE BORING, ALAN DAVIS, ADAM HUGHES, PAUL SMITH, BRUCE TIMM, and other Super-stars. Bonus: A roundtable discussion with modern-day creators (including JOHN BYRNE, JEPH LOEB, and ALEX ROSS) examining Superman’s influential past! Plus a (last-page) Introduction by Bizarro No. 1 (by Seinfeld writer David Mandel), and a super cover by DAVE GIBBONS! "

If it's anything like the other TwoMorrows "companions" it will be worth the wait, but it will also be published at least a few months LATER than they claim it will (right now thye have it as shipping in July).

Great news!

I've been waiting for years for something like this to be published, since TwoMorrow's All-Star Companion came out - hopefully it'll be very similar in concept.

I would have liked the Golden Age Superman to be covered too, but I'm grateful for this at least .

Too bad Mort, Julie, Wayne, and Curt aren't still around to have been interviewed as well.

This sounds fantastic!  I agree Two Morrows does excellent work on this kind of project (though I also agree they can tend to run late; the Jim Aparo book they promised for Christmas later had a revised due date of June!  Now it's supposedly "sold out" with no reprints available til December 2015!!!! That's gotta be a mis-type! :shock: ) and Silver/Bronze Age Superman is a vast, fascinating area of comics history long overdue for this treatment.

Wasn't Telle just asking about this kind of material in another thread?

And as the solicit says, that is indeed a "super cover by Dave Gibbons!"

http://twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=386&zenid=6d8cbda84d8598a0cf64fdf14f728588

Great Idea and a great cover!

I will be getting this once it is released.

There are a few nice books on the Golden Age Superman, but none other than the TGSB for this era.

I'm not sure to buy it. I'm very interested in this book, but I don't know if I want to spend 29 Dollars...

Keep an eye out at venues like Tales Of Wonder.com, and you're liable to snag it for about 30% less.

It does look neat, Dave Gibbons cover and all.  At first I thought it would be soemthing like TGSB but I'm happy to read that it is more like a glorified fanzine.  Still looking for early fannish writings on Superman, though...

Has anyone else ordered this? Received it yet? I ordered it from Amazon because they have it cheaper. But they have not shipped it yet making me think they have no copies yet. Twomorrow said it was available on July 26. Has anyone who ordered it from them got a confirmation yet?

The Two Morrows site still claims a 7/26 release date, but I don't know anyone who's seen it yet (and at this writing, it's 7/30!).

A quick check of Diamond Distributor's site shows shows no sign of the book on last week's shipping list, so it's a safe bet this book is not yet out.  It's not on this week's (8/2) list either.

The listing for the book on the Tales of Wonder site has changed from "Expected to ship 7/26" to "Expected to ship in August."

Here's hoping it doesn't end up like TwoMorrow's Swamp Men book, which has been pushed back several times already, or god forbid their Jim Aparo book, which was supposed to be out last summer, then last Christmas and now has a release date of Dec. 31, 2015 !!!! :shock:

I'm already desolated about the Aparo book, but this one looked like a dream come true.  Come on guys, get it together already!

The latest update to their site now claims it to be shipping September 6th. This is nothing to worry about; TwoMorrows books ALWAYS ship later (usually at least a couple of months later) than originally announced. They solicit the books before they finish writing them.

SWAMPMEN, though, has been cancelled until further notice. Dang.

Krypton Chronicles,
Krypton Chronicles,
I love ya, Krypton Chronicles,
You're always a month away!


I hope you're right and it's nothing to worry about.  But again, having been through this before on the Aparo book, I can't help getting that old familiar feeling....

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This product will be in stock on Wednesday 06 September, 2006.

source: http://www.twomorrows.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=386

Until then you can all keep on gawking at that cover :)

This came out this week.

Has anybody seen it, and have any comments to make?

Mine will be arriving on Tuesday from Amazon.

I bought my copy on Thursday. Haven't read the whole thing yet but it was very enjoyable so far.

It is a bit thinner than I hoped on the Weisinger era, but that's somewhat unavoidable... nearly everyone except the "kids" of that period (Shooter and Bates) has passed on. I was expecting them to dig up and reprint more interviews that had been given while the Silver Age crew were alive.

And I was sort of disappointed by the Cary Bates interview... he worked at DC for a quarter century, so I was expecting something a little more, I don't know, expansive.... he gave relatively short answers, and seemed strangely unenthusiastic in talking about the old days. Maybe his tone just comes off wrong in print, but I got the impression his leaving the comics biz wasn't for happy reasons.

Overall, there was a lot of good stuff and I highly recommend the book.

Too bad that its thin on Silver Age things, there are a lot of things I would like to know more about, like more on what Earth 2 was originally supposed to mean and how much Morty wanted to keep Superman out of it, more on how the editors disagreed, how well titles like Lois Lane really sold, etc...but then, maybe that wouldn't make it to a Superman-focused book, I just find myself interested in DC dynamics during that time.