SUPERMAN SUNDAY PAGE #68 NM - VERY RARE 1st BALD LEX LUTHOR - FEB 16, 1941

$

85

68th SUPERMAN SUNDAY PAGE (DC - McClure Publications - February 16, 1941) 
1st appearance of the Classic Bald Lex Luthor
This is Rare

With Action Comics #1 selling now for OVER three Million dollars, this amazing item is a stellar long term investment. This Rare Sunday page is highly prized for its fantastic graphics and story (by co-creator JOE SHUSTER and JERRY SIEGEL) that  Introduced SUPERMAN to a new audience that would eventually help him gain world wide popularity. 

Why this is so Rare:

Due to the very fragile nature and large size of the early Sunday pages, very few survived over the years. Unlike comic books these Sunday pages had no thick higher quality covers to protect them as the comic books did. Even a single day of exposure to sunlight would ruin them, and nearly every young boy would tack them to their walls at home, or cut them up for scrapbooks. Consequently, this Sunday page is truly a Rare item today.

A bit of HISTORY:

Superman, created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, first appeared in 30 daily strips that they labored over for four years (from concept to finished work in 1934 - 1938). These daily strips were reworked several times in order to produce a hopeful comic strip star, with their final submission sent to McClure newspaper syndicate in the early Spring of 1938. They were rejected once again but the strips were literally sitting on the desk of the editor when Vincent Sullivan happened to come by looking for rejected material for the purpose of comic book ideas. The Superman strips were handed to him and he immediately knew they would be perfect for the new title he was working on, called ACTION COMICS.

Securing permission from Siegel and Shuster, the rejected newspaper strips were cut up and arranged on comic book pages. He had Siegel and Shuster create a few more panels to allow for better transition and asked them to create a cover. The result was Action Comics #1 (June, 1938). 

Action Comics #2 and #3 were created in this same way, being cut up from these rejected newspaper strips.

By the end of 1938 it was apparent that McClure syndicate had made a HUGE blunder by rejecting the SUPERMAN series and literally allowing DC Comics to take them for nothing (other than paying Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster a paltry $130 to buy the daily strip art). In the fall of 1938 McClure acquired the rights to publish SUPERMAN as a daily adventure series, but they negotiated with DC comics instead of Siegel and Shuster, as DC thought that $130.00 paid to the boys gave them the rights of ownership (but that is another story).

A huge campaign was initiated by McClure touting the coming of Superman in their papers (these early ads are quite rare and valuable by the way) and on January 16, 1939 SUPERMAN’s first adventure strip was published. With a readership that eventually dwarfed the comic books, Superman became a national sensation. The daily strip series became extremely successful and by the Winter of 1939 SUPERMAN had been awarded a spot in the full color Sunday pages. The art and stories of these early newspaper stories are spectacular, showcasing some of Shuster’s best art by the way. 

Guarantee:

This Sunday page is unconditionally guaranteed to be fully Original, from 1941

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