Jerry Siegel's & Joe Shuster's Science Fiction

High quality reprint of the Reign of the Super-man the very first superman story by Gerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Not a comic book but a short novel in the style of the pulps it tells the story of Bill Dunn a down-of-his-luck man who acquires superpowers through a radical experiment. The story has all the main elements of the superman myth: a bald super-villain an unknown element coming from space that mutates human beings telescopic-vision aliens and an indomitable quest for absolute power. It was originally published on Science Fiction - The Advance Guard of Future Civilization #3 (Jan. 1933) one of the very first fanzine to be created which Siegel and Shuster developed with a typewriter and mimeographic machine for printing. Also collected for the first time: Goober the Mighty Siegel's Tarzan parody Stiletto Vance the vain detective and other raw gems the creators of Superman developed for the Torch the High School newspaper they worked for.