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Title page Superman #310 "The Man with the Kryptonite Heart", DC Comics, April 1977.
A striking and powerful title splash page from the Bronze Age of DC Comics, drawn by the legendary team of Curt Swan and Tex Blaisdell.
This artwork opens the story "The Man with the Kryptonite Heart" from Superman #310 (April 1977) and represents one of Swan's most mature and dynamic depictions of the Man of Steel.
The composition shows Superman flying directly toward the attackers, who are firing at him as bullets ricochet from his chest - an iconic symbol of his invulnerability and resolve.
Rendered in a full-body "double-fist forward" flight pose, this is one of Swan's rarest and most dramatic angles, typically reserved for key splash pages or covers of the era.
Although Superman is seen from behind, the perspective conveys tremendous energy and cinematic intensity - the viewer witnesses the hero charging straight into the line of fire.
The scene is balanced with Swan's characteristic clarity of form and Blaisdell's confident linework, hallmarks of their late-1970s collaboration.
The year 1977 marks the final phase of the classic Bronze Age Superman, just before the release of Superman: The Movie (1978).
Original art from this period, particularly title splashes, are now highly sought-after as defining images of Superman's pre-film identity.
A striking and powerful title splash page from the Bronze Age of DC Comics, drawn by the legendary team of Curt Swan and Tex Blaisdell.
This artwork opens the story "The Man with the Kryptonite Heart" from Superman #310 (April 1977) and represents one of Swan's most mature and dynamic depictions of the Man of Steel.
The composition shows Superman flying directly toward the attackers, who are firing at him as bullets ricochet from his chest - an iconic symbol of his invulnerability and resolve.
Rendered in a full-body "double-fist forward" flight pose, this is one of Swan's rarest and most dramatic angles, typically reserved for key splash pages or covers of the era.
Although Superman is seen from behind, the perspective conveys tremendous energy and cinematic intensity - the viewer witnesses the hero charging straight into the line of fire.
The scene is balanced with Swan's characteristic clarity of form and Blaisdell's confident linework, hallmarks of their late-1970s collaboration.
The year 1977 marks the final phase of the classic Bronze Age Superman, just before the release of Superman: The Movie (1978).
Original art from this period, particularly title splashes, are now highly sought-after as defining images of Superman's pre-film identity.
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About Curt Swan
Douglas Curtis "Curt" Swan (February 17, 1920 – June 17, 1996) was an American comic book artist. The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books, Swan produced hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Curt Swan, whose Swedish grandmother had shortened the original family name of Swanson, was the youngest of five children. Father John Swan worked for the railroads; mother Leontine Jessie Hanson had worked in a local hospital. As a boy, Swan's given name – Douglas – was shortened to "Doug," and, disliking the phonetic similarity to "Dog," Swan thereafter reversed the order of his given names and went by "Curtis Douglas," rather than "Douglas Curtis."
Having enlisted in Minnesota's National Guard's 135th Regiment, 34th Division in 1940, Swan was sent to Europe when the "federalized" division was shipped initially to Northern Ireland and Scotland. While his comrades in the 34th eventually went into combat in North Africa and Italy, Swan spent most of World War II working as an artist for the G.I. magazine Stars and Stripes. While at Stars and Stripes, Swan met writer France Herron, who eventually directed him to DC Comics.
