75 Years Ago, We Learned What The True ‘Superman Story’ Was

In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to September 1948 for a Superman story that revolved around what is the true “Superman story,” really. Years ago, I did a Comic Book Legends Revealed about how Stan Lee helped to push along Marvel having more multi-issue stories due to Lee trying to avoid having to come up with plot ideas. I quoted Lee from Andy Mangels’ excellent book, Iron Man: Beneath the ArmorLong story short, I just wanted to detail just how hard it was to keep coming up with plot ideas for stories, so I could segue into Bill Finger, one of the most famous idea guys in comic books, and specifically a clever story that he wrote in September 1948’s World’s Finest Comics #37 called “The Superman Story!” with art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye.RELATED: Ten Years Ago, DC’s Villains Took Over for a Month

In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to September 1948 for a Superman story that revolved around what is the true “Superman story,” really.

Years ago, I did a Comic Book Legends Revealed about how Stan Lee helped to push along Marvel having more multi-issue stories due to Lee trying to avoid having to come up with plot ideas. I quoted Lee from Andy Mangels’ excellent book, Iron Man: Beneath the Armor

RELATED: Ten Years Ago, DC’s Villains Took Over for a Month

Long story short, I just wanted to detail just how hard it was to keep coming up with plot ideas for stories, so I could segue into Bill Finger, one of the most famous idea guys in comic books, and specifically a clever story that he wrote in September 1948’s World’s Finest Comics #37 called “The Superman Story!” with art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye.

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