The Superman Files

“Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.”

“Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird.”

“It’s a plane”

“It’s Superman!”

“Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands. And who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.”

I can still remember those famous words as a young boy as a scurried off to the living room to watch the TV Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves as the Man of Steel.  I was only four or five but that TV show made such an impression on me that when I was old enough I began reading Superman comic books which sparked a love of comic books in general and in large part was responsible for my becoming a graphic designer and eventually a high school art and Commercial Art teacher.  I still read comic book today.

From Andrews McMeel Publishing and Brainiac 5 comes The Superman Files, the most complete telling of the life and legend of the Man of Steel.

Taking illustrations from the 1980’s rebirth of Superman to the present, the book is a massive compilation of facts about the spectacular life and times of Metropolis’s champion.

Beautifully bound in a hard cover the oversize book features a wraparound sleeve that appear to be etched from solid steel.  The Superman emblem is emblazoned on the book’s front cover.  

Inside readers are bombarded by hundreds of full color illustrations of Superman, his world, his friends and foes and every facet of Clark Kent’s and Superman’s lives.

Thrill to the secret life of Clark Kent, read up on the many exploits of the Man of Steel courtesy of The Daily Planet, read secret journals and see mementos only privy to Superman himself, learn all about Metropolis, see artifacts from the long lost world of Krypton, discover the secrets of the Fortress of Solitude and see the huge Rogue’s Gallery of Superman’s enemies.

This is the ‘ultimate’ book about Superman and dare I say it, “it’s as ‘super’ as he is!”