Thanks digg for finding this! Let me tell you, I thought it was so cool to read this first appearance of Superman. The interesting thing is how different it was from the standard legend:
- Krypton was dying from "old age"
- Superman grew up in an orphanage
- Superman is only described as "leaping", never as flying - and the comics all
- He is not described as impermeable, but that "nothing less than a bursting shell" can penetrate his skin
- There are scientific reasons (!!) given for how he's so strong
- His second crime stop ever described is domestic violence
- There is a science lesson embedded about closed circuits and electricity
- And, finally, it's only 15 pages long and there are 64 total pages in the book... wild!
Check it out! Plus, I LOVE those old-timey ads.
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