In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five times that Superman appeared on the cover of a new comic book to specifically “introduce” it. Recently, I did a Drawing Crazy Patterns about Marvel using Spider-Man to guest star in the first issue of a new series to help promote it. The idea of using the most popular superhero at a comic book company to help promote new superheroes is a normal enough approach, of course, but what was somewhat interesting was how not all of the comic books featured even used Spider-Man prominently on the cover (one of the comics, Nightwatch, didn’t use Spidey on the cover at ALL, just noted that he WAS inside the comic book).In 1944, Superboy was introduced into the world of comics, and his introduction was handled all sorts of weirdly. Jerry Siegel liked the idea of a super-powered prankster, so he kept pitching DC on the idea of a Superboy, who would use his powers for pranks and stuff like that. DC wasn’t interested, although it is interesting to note that the first superhero that Siegel and Joe Shuster created after leaving DC in the late 1940s was Funnyman, a superhero prankster. Anyhow, after the great success that the Batman titles had with the introduction of Robin, the Boy Wonder, teen sidekicks began popping up in droves in the early 1940s and eventually, DC relented and decided that it would have a Superboy after all. However, they didn’t even tell Siegel about it (as he was in the Army) and simply had Joe Shuster draw up a Don Cameron script (likely based on a later Siegel Superboy pitch). More Fun Comics #101 didn’t even MENTION that Superboy would be in the issue, suggesting that it was a truly last-minute decision.
In the latest Drawing Crazy Patterns, where we spotlight five recurring themes in comics, we examine five times that Superman appeared on the cover of a new comic book to specifically “introduce” it.
Recently, I did a Drawing Crazy Patterns about Marvel using Spider-Man to guest star in the first issue of a new series to help promote it. The idea of using the most popular superhero at a comic book company to help promote new superheroes is a normal enough approach, of course, but what was somewhat interesting was how not all of the comic books featured even used Spider-Man prominently on the cover (one of the comics, Nightwatch, didn’t use Spidey on the cover at ALL, just noted that he WAS inside the comic book).
In 1944, Superboy was introduced into the world of comics, and his introduction was handled all sorts of weirdly. Jerry Siegel liked the idea of a super-powered prankster, so he kept pitching DC on the idea of a Superboy, who would use his powers for pranks and stuff like that. DC wasn’t interested, although it is interesting to note that the first superhero that Siegel and Joe Shuster created after leaving DC in the late 1940s was Funnyman, a superhero prankster. Anyhow, after the great success that the Batman titles had with the introduction of Robin, the Boy Wonder, teen sidekicks began popping up in droves in the early 1940s and eventually, DC relented and decided that it would have a Superboy after all. However, they didn’t even tell Siegel about it (as he was in the Army) and simply had Joe Shuster draw up a Don Cameron script (likely based on a later Siegel Superboy pitch). More Fun Comics #101 didn’t even MENTION that Superboy would be in the issue, suggesting that it was a truly last-minute decision.
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