Jon Bogdanove
Art: Layouts, Pencils, and Inks

Jon Bogdanove has been drawing Superman professionaly for over thirty-five years.  He is widely known for his work on Power Pack, Superman: The Man of Steel, Fantastic Four Versus The X-Men, and for creating the character Steel with writer Louise Simonson in 1993.   He was artist and co-writer for the first 80 issues of The Man of Steel, including a three-part Golden Age Superman tribute.  After leaving the book, Jon drew two additional Superman projects: Superman v. The Savage Dragon and Superman v. Aliens: Godwar.  He has also worked on other Superman titles including Superman and Superman Forever.  He lives in Maine with his wife, composer and writer Judith Kurtz.

Angel Criado [Criado Studio]
Art: Layouts, Pencils, Inks, Touch-up

A long-time contributor to the Superman Through the Ages! fan gallery, and a fan of "all things Superman" for over 50 years, Angel was the impetus behind the restoration project.  "The K- Metal from Krypton" is his first comic book work.

Shane Foley [Shakah-Rune]
Art: Layouts, Pencils, Inks, Touch-up, some Dialogue Balloons

Shane is an Ambulance Paramedic in Paradise—sometimes referred to as Queensland, Australia—and has been tinkering in comics for the past twenty years.  He has had his work published in numerous Australian comics, including one of the great comics of the early 1990s, Dark Nebula, which is online and includes 100 pages of Shane's artwork.  He is a frequent contributor to The Jack Kirby Collector and to Alter Ego magazine, with the cover of Alter Ego 27, mimicking the great Jack Kirby's style, being one of the reasons he was considered for this project.

Bob Rivard [LAB-RAT GRAPHICS]
Art: Inks, Brushwork, Finishes

Bob Rivard is a long-time contributor to Image's Big Bang comics, where he mimics the classic inking styles of various gold-and-silver-age artists.  Bob's work has appeared in numerous fanzines and small press comics, and commission work is available through his website.  He lives in California with his wife and family, cursing the unknown villain who apparently exposed him to Gold K as an infant.

Randy Sargent [Shakah-Rune]
Colors

Sarge has loved comics for most of his life. He has been a fan of the early Superman comics for even longer, and by "early" Superman he means the Superman who could only leap and not yet fly.  As a child he found fun by spending his free time coloring Jack Kirby artwork, but he never considered the pastime to even be a hobby.  It wasn't until a few years ago that an inspirational fellow (on many levels) named Shane Foley got him to take it seriously.  He's been enjoying it ever since.

Sarge's work has appeared in Krash, The Panther, Alter Ego, and The Jack Kirby Collector.

Audrey Gale
K-Metal Font, Dialogue Balloons, Lettering & FX, Edits, Digital Cleanup, and Web Production

Creator and webmistress of the Superman Through the Ages! website since 1995 and founder of Supermanica, Audrey's previous comic book related credits include an interview with long-time Superman writer Elliot S! Maggin, the frontispiece to the Kingdom Come novel, and premiering and publishing Starwinds Howl (The Epic Story of Krypto the Superdog).  She has also extensively edited, modifed, and/or restored many Superman comic books for online presentation, including restoring Jon Bogdanove's Golden Age Superman tribute; and single-handedly creating the Special Edition of "Who Took the Super out of Superman?"

Jerry Siegel
Story and Script

Co-creator of Superman, co-creator of Superboy, and primary Superman writer from 1938 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1965.  Jerry Siegel has written countless Superman and Superman-related stories, including the very first Superman story ever published and numerous Silver age stories such as the origin of Lex Luthor and the "Death of Superman."  The Jerry Siegel estate is 50% co-owner of the Superman copyright and also owns the copyright to Superboy.

The Joe Shuster Studio
Original Layouts, Pencils, Inks, Balloons, and Letters

Co-creator of Superman and later of Superboy, Joe Shuster was at first the only artist on the character.  He quickly had to form "The Joe Shuster Studio" in order to help him keep up with the ever-increasing workload that Superman's sky-rocketing popularity demanded. 

The artists who worked on the surviving original 1940 pages of this story were (links open biographies in a new window): Paul Cassidy, Wayne Boring, Don Komisarow, John Sikela, Leo Nowak, and Joe Shuster.  See the original credits for details about which artist worked on which page. 

Joe Shuster's usual role at this time was to draw Superman and Lois' heads.  It is unknown whether or not he did for this story.  Shuster continued as Superman artist until 1947.

Whitney Ellsworth
Editor

Whitney Ellsworth was the editor at National (later DC) Comics who was in charge of Superman, Batman, and other characters.  He was also a prolific comicbook writer.  He served as Jerry and Joe's direct boss, and after the completion of The K-Metal from Krypton, he wanted the story restructed and some additional changes made to it.  His editorial suggestions were never made - possibly because they would have involved rewriting and redrawing the story.  We have seen fit to present Jerry and Joe's completed version of the comicbook without attempting to incorporate Whitney's list of requested changes. 

Ellsworth later served as co-producer and script developer for the Superman radio show and the Adventures of Superman television series.  Many of the ideas introduced in The K-Metal from Krypton were later reused in those other media.