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[The Secret of the K-Metal]

My first attempt to continue The Secret of the K-Metal was outlined in my old pitch to DC Comics.

That didn't work out; so we are attempting to do it here, as part of our own Superman Through the Ages! online comic.

The title of this continuing K-Metal saga, which will be a regularly recurring feature within the pages of Superman Through the Ages!, is "Saga of the K-Metal"

Here's where things might get a little confusing.

Our first storyline within Saga of the K-Metal is a trilogy, centered around Siegel and Shuster's The Secret of the K-Metal, which forms the central chapter.

Most people are already familiar with the second chapter, which is now a full-color, complete and restored-for-the-first-time; readable comic book:



We will continue to restore this classic comic, replacing our own versions of individual pages with the Shuster Studio versions as they become available.

The first chapter in Saga of the K-Metal is the prequel, which will precede and lead into the events of Chapter Two.

Here is its cover, unveiled now for the very first time:



This gorgeous cover artwork is the creation of Angel Criado, who is also the mastermind behind this genius trilogy.

Chapter One will be a fully painted re-presentation of Siegel and Shuster's 1933 masterpiece, The Reign of the Super-Man, which Angel has extended in order to explain just how it leads into the events of The Secret of the K-Metal.

Note that although The Reign of the Super-Man is a prequel to The Secret of the K-Metal, it is being published in a later issue of the Superman Through the Ages! comic book.

Chapters One and Two, taken together, will lay the groundwork for the events of the forthcoming Chapter Three.

After the trilogy is complete, Saga of the K-Metal may, or may not, continue on with additional chapters.

This topic has been moved to Secret of the K-Metal!.

https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/forum/index.php?topic=4157.0

Great! Can't wait for the restoration!

[Page 2]

We recently got ahold of re-assembled versions of the original artwork for K-Metal pages 2 and 4:

Page 2

Page 4

I've been waiting on adding them to the site because the story of their discovery and (re)creation is worthy of an article in itself; and I also wanted to wait until our full-color restoration was complete and ready to go. ie, put up both the old and the new and the article all at the same time.

But I did not want to hold up on making them public any longer - so here they are and both the article and restorations are in the pipeline.

[The official announcement.]

The official announcement.

[very]

And from our early days; one of the first versions of page 1 (possibly the very first?) - Angel's pencils with Bob Rivard's inks -



It's absolutely incredible that I had forgotten about this!!

The Secret of the K-Metal it is.

["Secret of the K-Metal!"]

I was recently reminded that our original name for this story, from 2003 up until I read the Gerard Jones book, was "Secret of the K-Metal!"

So, in the interest of historical accuracy; we'll be moving back towards that in some way.



Site changes in the queue.

[three hyphens]

Thank you!!

I've run across the occasional minor difference between our version and the 1940 version on other pages that are later discovered  - things like the number of trailing dots at the end of a sentence, or the number of hyphens (as with Lois' dialogue in the page 24 "partners" panel; in the original panel it's three hyphens; in our version it's two).

Now I chalk these up to differences in the two versions of the script.

Interesting analysis!