SUPERMAN ACTION COMICS ARCHIVES HC VOL 01 ***OOP***

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New Hardcover – retail 49.99 – Action Comics Archives 1 (Action Comics 1, 7-20; w Jerry Siegel; a Joe Shuster). [From DC Comics: The Superman stories from Action Comics 2-6 appear in Superman Archives Volume 1, but are summarized here. “I thought I knew everything about Superman. Then I read the stories reprinted in this volume, many of them for the first time, and my eyes widened with every page-turn. If I expected to glean here the adventures of a calm, well-reasoned guardian of The System, I was clearly flipping through the wrong book. Within these pages I met a head-bashing Superman who took no prisoners, who made his own law and enforced it with his fists, who gleefully intimidated his foes with a wicked grin and a baleful glare. A Superman who reveled in his strength, who clearly enjoyed raising a little hell and who didn’t care who got in his way as he bounded through Metropolis meting out his own brand of justice. Was I surprised? When I see bullets bouncing off Superman’s chest, I don’t expect them to be coming from the guns of policemen. Whoever this was in the red cape, he was no super-cop. He was a super-anarchist. How could he have started out so different?”—from the foreword by Mark Waid]