Action Comics No.20
date: label: date made
content: 1940
name: label: maker
content: D. C. Comics, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Action Comics no. 20 </i> features the story "Superman and the Screen Siren" written by Jerry SIegel and pencilled by Joel Schuster. . The comic also contains stories featuring the characters of Pep Morgan, Chuck Dawson, Clip Carson, Tex Thomson, Three Aces and Zatara.
label: Description
content: The character of Superman first flew into action in 1938. The costumed superhero was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland Ohio, who used, among other things, classical mythology and the era's popular science fiction and adventure writing for inspiration.
label: Description
content: With his debut in Action Comics #1, Superman became an instant sensation with audiences, inspired by the "Man of Tomorrow's" virtue and heroics at time when the Nation was slowly emerging from the economic catastrophe of the Great Depression and moving closer to World War.
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content: Born on the doomed planet Krypton, Superman was sent to Earth as a child, where our world's yellow sun granted him extraordinary powers such as flight, super-strength, near-invulnerability, as well as other extraordinary abilities including heat and X-Ray vision. As an adult living in the city of Metropolis, the alien, born Kal-El, protects his identity by assuming the persona of Clark Kent, a "mild-mannered" journalist.
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content: Fighting for "Truth and Justice," Superman birthed a cultural fascination with superheroes, and has become one of the most recognizable and influential fictional characters in history. In addition to comic books, the character has been explored in all forms of media, including radio, television, and film, and has been used to promote a variety of successful consumer products, educational initiatives and public service campaigns.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
topic: label: Subject
content: Comics
label: Subject
content: Superman
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3085.077
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3085
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3085.077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/4 in x 7 in; 26.035 cm x 17.78 cm