Book and Sound Recording, Superman: From Krypton to Metropolis
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: Fisher-Price
label: maker
content: Fisher-Price
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 1982's "Superman: From Krypton to Metropolis," was written by E. Nelson Bridwell, and illustrated by Ross Andru, Adrian Gonzales, Mike DeCarlo, and Gene D'Angel. The 62-page volume, relaying the history of Superman's origins, is packaged with an accompanying 45-minute cassette tape, where the story is read by actors accompanied with music and sound effects. The product is part of the "Fischer-Price Library of Story-Tapes and Books" series.
label: Description (Brief)
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 (Brief)
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.
label: Description (Brief)
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.
label: Description (Brief)
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.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, East Aurora
topic: label: Subject
content: Superman
label: Subject
content: Literature
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Sound Recordings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: DC Comics, Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0213.134
label: accession number
content: 1987.0213
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0213.134
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tape, Cassette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall marterial)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 4 1/8 in x 1 in; 17.78 cm x 10.4775 cm x 2.54 cm