Pop culture roundup: Jack Kirby! John Buscema! Superman!

Here's an awesome Galactus pic by Jack Kirby via Cap'n's Comics:


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More great comics art: A tribute to Marvel artist Big John Buscema.


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Superman was a smash hit when he arrived in Action Comics in 1938, but it took the character's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster more than four years of pitching the idea -- which they viewed as a newspaper comic strip -- before DC Comics paid them nearly nothing for the character. Why so long? And who, at DC, "discovered" Superman? Comics historian R.C. Harvey takes a long look.


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