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UNDER-ORDERED -The Joe Shuster Story: The Co-Creator of Superman

DC Comics generated international headlines this week when they announced that Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman will include a new, original story never-published 12-page Superman story by Jerry Siegel and the Joe Shuster Studio titled "Too Many Heroes."

The 384-page Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman mostly-reprint hardcover is scheduled go on-sale April 18th for $29.99, the same day as the 80-page Action Comics #1000.

It's pretty damn close as Action Comics issue #1 was published on April 18th, 1938.

Retailers marking that date on their calendar should take note of another graphic novel coming out that month.

Super Genius will be publishing The Joe Shuster Story: The Co-Creator of Superman a graphic novel by Julian Voloj and Thomas Campi on April 24, 2018. Orders for the book are due now at Diamond, but orders through comic stores are rather on the low side.

However Super Genius is expecting lots and lots of press coverage before publication.

Everyone knows Superman, but not everyone knows the story of two youngsters from Cleveland who created Superman. Based on archival material and original sources, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Joe Shuster Story" tells the story of the friendship between writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster, and puts it into the wider context of the American comic book industry.

The book's writer, Julian Voloj, is the author of Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker, which was praised by Junot Diaz and was one of Booklist's Top 10 Graphic Novels in 2016. Super Genius will be doing a strong library push, as it does for all its books, but literary review and feature attention for The Joe Shuster Story: The Co-Creator of Superman and renewed interest in the creators of Superman should give this a little fire and fury… here's a look at the comic. The kind of thing that might sit alongside Is It A Bird?

UNDER-ORDERED -The Joe Shuster Story: The Co-Creator of Superman

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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