IDW Publishing; $49.99

The Library of American Comics continues to remind fans that comic strips were once a phenomenally entertaining and compelling art form, even in terms of superheroes (and they could be again, but that’s a rant for a different time). Their newly released Superman: The Silver Age Dailies – 1959-1961 kicks off the first of three sub-sets they’ll be publishing including The Silver Age, The Atomic Age, and The Golden Age. They will also be releasing the Sunday pages separately and concurrently.

Why comic strip and particular Superman fans should care about this is the presence of beautiful art by Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, and Stan Kaye, with scripts from Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel based on stories by Otto Binder, Robert Bender and Jerry Coleman (as well his interpretation of his own “Superman Returns to Krypton!”).

In all, there are about 750 strips in this first volume, a sterling introduction to that era’s interpretation of the Man of Steel.