The Superman Dailies '49-'59: Superman meets Steve Allen
For a diehard Superman fan – especially one who, like me, has a strong soft spot for the Golden Age iteration of the Man of Steel – the character’s daily and Sunday newspaper strips are a treasure trove. Produced between 1939 and 1966, largely consisting of original stories, and sporting a unique continuity from the assorted monthly Superman titles, the newspaper strip represents a whole universe of outstanding new adventures produced by some of the character’s greatest innovators. The Library of American Comics has done a spectacular job of collecting the strips in a series of hardcover volumes beginning in 2013 (picking up where Kitchen Sink had begun with its reprint series in the late nineties). The series is largely complete, with the unfortunate exception of one decade of stories for which no reproduction-suitable strips can be found – 1949-1959. Lois Lane and Clark Kent marry, from the SUPERMAN daily newspaper strip, 1949. This is a shame, because some of Superman’s most interes...