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.It’s a welcome back super friend of the store, Nicky Wheeler Nicholson! Her new book “DC Before Superman” was just recently released from Hermes Press and it is an absolutely stunning collection of very early comic works from creators like Siegel & Shuster that her Grandfather, Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson, cultivated.

Here is is some recent PR on the book: “DC Comics Before Superman is the first look at the relatively unknown contribution that Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson provided to the start of the comic book business. His story provides detail and context for the growth of this comic book company during the depression and a glance at a noteworthy, and largely forgotten, career.

The remarkable beginning of original comic book stories (as opposed to comic strip reprints) started with Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s fledgling publishing venture and would grow to become DC Comics. The writers, artists and editors that became part of DC history, including Siegel and Shuster, began their careers with the Major. Prior to Superman, many of the characters serialized in these early comic books had their beginning with the Major’s pulp adventure stories. This groundbreaking new book provides background and examples of comic book stories with art by Leo O’Mealia, Tom Hickey, Munson Paddock and Sven Elven, lushly reproduced by Hermes Press with over 170 pages of the original comics.”

 

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