"The K-Metal from Krypton" is an unpublished

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story written by

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in 1940 and originally illustrated by the

Joe Shuster Joseph Shuster (; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992), professionally known simply as Joe Shuster, was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in ''Action Comics'' #1 (c ...

Studio.Jones, Gerard. ''Men Of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book'', 2004, pg. 181-183, The reason why National Comics (later to become

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) never published the story is not known. This storyline features the precursor to

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called "K-Metal" and Lois learning that Clark Kent is Superman. Like all Superman stories of the 1940s, the adventure originally had no title. The earliest known occurrence of the name "The K-Metal from Krypton" for the tale was in

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' 2004 book ''Men of Tomorrow''. The story remained forgotten and unknown from 1941 until 1988, when Jerry Siegel's original script and story outline was rediscovered in deep storage in the

library by

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.Waid, Mark. ''K-Metal: The "Lost" Superman Tale'',

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#26, 2003

Restoration

The surviving original story pages were worked on by Wayne Boring, Paul Cassidy, Dan Komisarow, Leo Nowak, and John Sikela. Artist

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has agreed to contribute new artwork to the project. The comic was being restored, colored and published online, but was never completed. The website includes all completed pages. For uncompleted pages, scans of the original artwork or script page are also included. The restoration team is looking for any copies of the missing pages that they can find, and aim to replace any redrawn pages with restorations of originals if available.

References

External links

Online restored comicbook

Page 17 original Shuster Studio artwork discovered
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