Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus Volume 1 HC Hardcover – 18 Jun. 2013

I hated Superman and so would you if you had read the Supergirl stories in Action Comics 252 to 299. He was a bully and she was so sweet that she did not seem to notice that he was a bully.Even in the early stories, Superman was often a jerk but think about it. If you could leap tall buildings at a single bound, were more powerful than a locomotive, and faster than a speeding bullet, wouldn't you do some horrible things? Clark scoops Lois, not because he is a better reporter but because he is Superman, and Lois does not like it. I am with Lois. She comes over as a much nicer person than the Lois I knew in the sixties.Superman fights for truth, justice, and the American way, and because he is less powerful than the Superman of the fifties and sixties he is able to fight a wide variety of enemies. Some of the stories are serious and some are humorous.If Dean Cain is your favourite Superman, I think you will like this book.NOTE The photos I added to my review are photos of the original comics, not the book. The omnibus pages have been cleaned up. I wanted to show you the primitive but effective art and the kind of adventures you will get.

This book is a dream come true. It goes all the way back to the original Superman comics .You can see Superman gradually change as the comic matures and it has so many stories that it will keep you busy reading for a long time. I hope they do a similar book for the Batman comics. Buy this book, it's unbelievable.

A great collection of all the Golden Age Superman comics from June 1938 to December 1940. This was exactly what I want and expect from an omnibus, it's a nice way to get a large collection of sequential comic books without all the messing around trying to work out which ones you have and which ones you need, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing if they bring out a Vol. 2. Be slightly wary if you're expecting the later style of Superman, their is a big contrast. Most of the story-lines are ridiculous, but it seems that the more absurd they are the more I enjoy them. Definitely worth every penny.

A beautiful price of history. Any die hard Superman or DC fan should own this.No, the stories are not as imaginative as the later comics and some of the takes can get a bit repetetive. But repetetive awesomeness is still awesome. If I had to describe this collection in one word, I'd say "FUN". It's a great read, maybe read a story or two each night before you go to bed (that's what I did). It introduces Lex Luthor, but the stand out villain in this collection is defiantly Ultra-Humanite. Superman mostly faces mob bosses, corrupt politicians, Jewel theifs etc. So it's great when you start reading another issue in this collection and realise Ultra Humanite has debuted/returned. Eventually Lex is introduced and takes Ultras place as Supermans arch enemy, though he doesn't out do Ultra quite yet.All in all this book is perfect... I'll be buying volume 2 and 3 when its released.

This volume reprints the very early Superman stories.The stories are primarily concerned with Superman fighting criminals or for social justice (and the occasional foreign warmonger); no costumed villains back then, though Luthor does wear a white lab coat – the uniform of mad scientists in those days - and you'll find there was a regular mad scientist even before Luthor...Although these were the top-selling comics of the day, they are nowhere near as interesting as the Batman comics published at the same time, which have stood the test of time much better than the early Superman. Superman was something quite new then, simply through having super-human powers, and that accounted for a great deal of his popularity. We tend to expect more nowadays.Even in appearance, Superman is different to today, as he still has the tiny S logo on his chest, by the end of this volume it evolves to a larger S-shield, though not yet to the stylised S of today. It is also towards the end of this volume that he evolves from just leaping tall buildings to flying.If you are a fan of the Golden Age of comics, then you will find these stories more entertaining than perhaps a casual browser would.

Probably, pages are obtained from old microfilms and are not scanned directly from originally printed comic books or original artworks. So the lines of the pictures are burned or missing. Maybe DC should leave this kind of issues to IDW or Fantagraphics, who know how to do them very well.