In late 1984, Jan and Dean Mullaney’s Eclipse Comics published SIEGEL & SHUSTER: DATELINE 1930s, which published at-that-point unseen work produced by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before being hired by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1935.
Publication of the book, which was 36 pages and the same dimensions as a comic book, even rated a blurb in the May 1985 cover-date issue of Heavy Metal magazine, written by Bhob Stewart, longtime writer for the magazine.
The article is a very surprising find, given that Heavy Metal lies far outside the wheelhouse of Siegel and Shuster and that there is unlikely to be a wide cross-section of people who are both avid readers of Heavy Metal and fans of pre-Golden Age comics.
A second issue of SIEGEL & SHUSTER: DATELINE 1930s was published in 1985 but, despite the article’s suggestion, did not reprint any FUNNYMAN stories, instead opting for more unseen work from the 1930s.
