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A week that brought horror in Boston and shame in Washington also includes an unlikely positive: according to court records, it was 75 years...

Forty-nine storage rooms. One hundred ten buildings. Six thousand, two hundred ninety-one trunks. Millions of items, any of which could be w...

I've explored the multitude of book covers that manage to show Superman without showing Superman . Another super-cover phenomenon is the...

...from becoming homeless . This not only makes you feel good but also makes you wonder how many more copies of Action #1 are out there, wai...

As someone who grew up loving the (first two) Christopher Reeve Superman movies, I had high expectations for Superman Returns (2006). Too h...

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman includes an illustration of a man looking at Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman an...

The New York City snowfall is not the only force of nature that broke records this week. On 2/22/10, Superman made history yet again. A orig...

...Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman first went on sale in Action Comics #1. My earliest Superman memory is being six, sitting i...

In September 2007, I first saw a sketch of Ross MacDonald's cover concept for Boys of Steel : Notice anything? (Yes, besides the misspel...

My editor is semi-retired and does not work on Mondays (or Wednesdays or Fridays) — rather she does not go to the office. First thing this m...

Numerous other blogs are binging on bytes in their coverage of the seismic Superman ruling of earlier this week. For a more naïve and way...

This week, the family of Jerry Siegel got some good news . It's probably too late to note this victory in my book.

Superman was the first comic book superhero. Boys of Steel is the first picture book biography of his creators, Jerry Siegel (the...