Showcase Presents: Superman Family, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Otto Binder (Author), Curt Swan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 27, 2008

Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced volume!This second volume of Superman Family stories stars Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, who get into one off-the-wall situation after another.In Jimmys stories, the cub reporter trades bodies with a gorilla, becomes the Bird Boy of Metropolis, gains the power of Future Vision, and is transformed into a boy from Jupiter.In Loiss stories, the star reporter becomes an enchanting witch, a jailbird and the fattest girl in Metropolis, and then learns the secret of The Girl Who Stole Supermans Heart.

Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (February 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401216560
• ISBN-13: 978-1401216566
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 1.3 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Printing problem on first run, March 29, 2008

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DC ISSUED A RECALL/REPLACEMENT PLAN FOR FLAWED COPIES OF " SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL. 2 TP (NOV070244), several pages from SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #2 were accidentally swapped.

DC Comics will provide retailers with new, corrected copies of this title in quantities equal to their orders to date on the current printing. Retailers will not be billed for these new copies. DC asks retailers to please dispose of any copies of SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL 2 TP they currently have on their shelves, and to accept returned copies from their customers in exchange for corrected copies.

The SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL 2 TP new printing is scheduled to arrive in stores on April 2. To differentiate it from the original printing, the logo on this cover will be red and white instead of red and yellow.

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UPDATE:
AMAZON HAS REPLACED IT TWICE BUT THE COLORBLIND ILLITERATES AT THEIR WAREHOUSE HAVN'T FIGURED OUT HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND DESTROY THE BAD ONES. GET IT SOMEWHERE ELSE !

5.0 out of 5 stars Superman Family Fun!, June 14, 2009

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Hwy61Joe (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Showcase Presents: Superman Family, Vol. 2 (Paperback)

I continue to find the Superman collections the most enjoyable of all DC's Showcase Presents volumes and Superman Family Vol. 2 is no exception! 500+ pages of fun and simple 8-10 page stories. Classic Superman art by Curt Swan, Wayne Boring and Kurt Schaffenberger is featured in just about every story.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Silver Age, Notorious, May 20, 2008

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The stories collected in the Superman Family volumes in DC's Showcase Presents project are perhaps the least accessible for new readers looking into the Silver Age of comic books. This is because these are the stories that contain most of the truly notorious narrative contrivances of the era, spawned by the increasing difficulty of coming up with story lines that not only involve Superman but actually star, alternately, his "best pal" Jimmy Olsen and his "girlfriend" Lois Lane, not two of the brightest scriveners in journalism - at least not as they're depicted here.

Even so, I think that for anyone seriously interested in the most significant facets of the Silver Age, these volumes are required reading. They are prime examples of what comic book storytelling had been reduced to by the heavy hand of censorship as imposed by the Comics Code Authority. (The CCA had institutionalized the attitude in the American general public that comic books were strictly for kids, an attitude that has not vanished by any means.)