Jerry Siegel's & Joe Shuster's Science Fiction
By Jerry Siegel
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High quality reprint of “the Reign of the Super-man,” the very first “superman” story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Not a comic book, but a short novel in the style of the pulps, it tells the story of Bill Dunn, a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment. The story has all the main elements of the superman myth: a bald super-villain, an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings, telescopic-vision, aliens, and an indomitable quest for absolute power. It was originally published on Science Fiction – The Advance Guard of Future Civilization #3 (Jan. 1933), one of the very first fanzine to be created, which Siegel and Shuster developed with a typewriter and mimeographic machine for printing. Also collected for the first time: “Goober the Mighty”, Siegel’s Tarzan parody, Stiletto Vance the vain detective, and other raw gems the creators of Superman developed for the Torch, the High School newspaper they worked for.
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Jerry Siegel's & Joe Shuster's Science Fiction - Jerry Siegel
Story & Art by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster Edited by C. Sesselego, E. Civiletti
Restoration by E. Civiletti
Cover by E. Civiletti, L. Livi
Designed by Emiliano Civiletti
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Contents
Credits
Human and Superhuman
The Reign of the Super-Man
The Prehistory of the Super-Man
The Early Works of Jerry Siegel
Professor Sights Stupefying Vision
Renowned Detective Deducts Deductions
Editor Receives Math Puzzle From Author
Attention M
Vance Deserts Crime For Literary Contests
Vance’s Breath-o-scope Solves Mystery Puzzle
‘Izzie Murphy,’ Slithering Sleuth, Solves Thrilling Live Corpse Murder Mystery
Detective Tries Composing
Goober The Mighty Discovers Countless Foes In Wilderness
Untitled Poem 1
Goober, The Mighty, Returns To Page With Breath-Taking Story Of Battle In Jungle
Two Torch Sleuths Murdered, But Only Dead From Neck Up
Untitled Poem 2
Five Men And A Corpse
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Human and Superhuman
Anthropologically speaking, the conceptualization of the superhuman
comes along human self-perception.
As one perceives his own existential condition, he is also able to mentally project that perception into the definition of its opposite: the superhuman.
The superhuman is, then, the condition that differs from human and that realistically could bring it to its negation and ultimate annihilation…
…Unless, of course, the superhuman becomes the prototype of humanity’s individual aspirations and social gain.
In the wake of the ancient cultures, superhumans are heroes and demigods with supernatural abilities. They do not kill monsters because it is cool
, they do so because they make the world at man’s measure, keeping, at the same time, human beings within the rules made by the gods.
In the modern era, the concept of the superhuman is completely overturned. In short, Nietzsche define the Ubermensch
(Thus Spoke Zarathustra – 1896) as the sole creator of a new set of values for humanity. He must be able of transcending the ancient concept of god as the moral regulator for human behavior and determine new rules for all. Would he fail, nihilism will prevail.
Nietzsche also states that the Ubermensch
is the goal humanity must aspire to. As God is dead
, man remains as his own judge and jury, a role he cannot take if he does not reach a superhuman condition.
The concept was so rich that the intellectuals of the beginning of the 20th century quickly took position to promote or criticize the idea of the super-man
while writers could not resist to make it their own.
George Bernard Shaw’s play, Man and Superman (1903), depicts a revolutionary man considering himself above human concerns, as he refuses the Victorian morality.
James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) hints at the Ubermensch
in its first chapter, while Jack London’s Sea-Wolf (1904), Iron Heel (1908) and Martin Eden (1909) are a criticism to Nietzsche’s superman
concept, and promote a Darwinian depiction of exceptionally gifted persons as social drivers of change.
Summarizing, while the western society of the early 20th century was ready to accept characters (and role-models) that re-interpreted the heroes of ancient times, perhaps because they had been part of literature for a long time, or else because they were heroes of a different era, that same society was still deciding if it was ready to accept the more modern concept of the superhuman
.
It was difficult to understand if Nietzsche’s Ubermensch
was pros
or cons