![]() ![]() ![]() “Mighty, solitary, wearing his underpants on the outside as if in an endless anxiety dream, he flies on. Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of Americas. Next year, he’s due, at age 75, to be reinvented again, for another film. Buy a cheap copy of Superman: The High-Flying History of. ![]() “The story lessens in excitement the closer it gets to the present: the predictably gritty reboots of the comic book, the megabucks ’70s and ’80s movies.” Still, you have to admire Superman’s pop-culture invincibility. Halfway in, he provides a “sizzling portrait” of Mort Weisinger, a “brutal bottom-liner” at DC Comics who was also the editor responsible for some of the franchise’s most potent myths. Tye’s account brims with supersize irony, said James Parker in The New York Times. The whole story has been told before, but Tye “does his homework well,” detailing how Superman’s creators sold all rights to the character for a measly $130, then endured decades of hard times while their brainchild soared. “The best origin story” pulsing through this Superman is “not the one about the Krypton-to-Kansas alien baby,” but the one about the superhero’s “all-too-mortal creators.” Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster grew up as outsiders in 1930s Cleveland and fashioned their hero in their own image, from his nerdy alter ego Clark Kent to his Hebrew-sounding given name, Kal-El. Superman isn’t Tye’s only protagonist, said Michael Cavna in The Washington Post. ![]()
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