My Superman Grail Acquired First Full Origin 1939 RARE Complete Set Triumph

[eccomic]

Wanted to share this rarity with my fellow forumites:

 

1st SUPERMAN in Europe

1st Comic Book Origin of Superman

TRIUMPH Publishers Bound Volume

23 issues with 24 pages each

(DC - Triumph Publications - July - Dec, 1939)

 

This amazing publication contains the FULL origin of SUPERMAN by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and is The Very 1st comic book in the world ever to print this, USA included.

In the USA, McClure syndicate began the SUPERMAN daily comic strips in early 1939 but no publisher ever published these (now rare) early strips in comic book form. Triumph was the very first publication in the world to do this. Now you can now see the TRUE 1st ORIGIN of Superman that was never printed in the USA issued comic books.

Almost all of the panels are the work of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster but Triumph had its artists create a few panels in order to allow the stories to sequence more smoothly. Also a few of the top splashes were created by them, as well as four fantastic front covers.

The 1st eight issues in this volume sold at the very same time that SUPERMAN #1 was on the newsstands in the USA, but has a far more detailed origin as well as a fully original cover. The later issues in this volume sold prior to or at the same time as SUPERMAN #2 in the USA. So this is a very historic publication for serious Superman collectors.

 

This bound volume was originally from the estate of William B. Home-Gall, former editor of Amalgomated Press, so the provenance is fascinating indeed.

 

 

 

 

[oakman29]

Has Mike/comicdonna seen this yet.I would love to get his take on it.

[thehumantorch]

Very, very cool.

[Captain Canuck]

Amazing book!

[esquirecomics]

Incredible find! Congrats!

[comicdonna]

Has Mike/comicdonna seen this yet.I would love to get his take on it.

I think it's great. I have never seen one before.

[G.A.tor]

Never seen one before

[rjpb]

Nice way to pick up the run, they look to be in beautiful shape and great provenance!

 

Awesome pick up. Congratulations!

[Point Five]

I've seen some of the individual issues roll around on ebay. I didn't know that about Supe's origin first appearing there though, that is quite cool. Some really nice work by Shuster there.

 

Congrats! (thumbs u

 

 

[Twistty1]

Very interesting and very cool. Congrats.

[AnkurJ]

Very cool! Was this on ebay?

[Dark Knight]

I want one now

[jgallo]

Would you be kind enough to tell me if this page is in your bound volume and if so what issue it is from.

 

 

Very cool stuff I remember these first being big back in the late 1990s, tough to track down and a nice set like that is great.

 

James G

[TheEyeSees]

I believe this bound volume was on CLINK several months ago... I saw it, drooled over it, then the price went well over my budget!

 

Great Pick up!

[innocuous]

That is awesome. Thanks for posting all those pictures. It appears Clark Kent and Peter Parker had the same strategy to getting a job.

[BOOT]

Wanted to share this rarity with my fellow forumites:

WOW!

 

That is one of the coolest items ever seen on the boards!

 

Fantastic! Historical!

 

Congratulations on an amazing acquisition!

[markseifert]

Amazing stuff!

 

Thanks so much for posting all the pics and info. Really very cool.

[Sardo Numspar]

This is incredible. Thank you for sharing.

[Hibou]

That is very, very cool!

 

Who did the cover artwork?

 

I like it!!!

[eccomic]

John McCail, UK illustrator, did the cover art and top of splash pages.