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SteadyIn his lifetime, Richard E. Merkling saw four wars, flew over four hundred combat missions, piloted all the fighters the Air Force had during his thirty four years of service, and shaped world history. Toy kites and Amelia Earhart inspired his love of flight. He learned to fly in the Army Air Corps during World War II, before the Air Force ever existed. He was offered an opportunity to become an astronaut. He got into a dogfight with a Russian pilot

In his lifetime, Richard E. Merkling saw four wars, flew over four hundred combat missions, piloted all the fighters the Air Force had during his thirty-four years of service, and shaped world history.

Toy kites and Amelia Earhart inspired his love of flight. He learned to fly in the Army Air Corps during World War II, before the Air Force ever existed. He was offered an opportunity to become an astronaut. He got into a dogfight with a Russian pilot in the skies over North Korea. He test fired the first jet-launched nuclear missile. He brought the C-17, the A-10, the F-15, and the F-16 to the Air Force. He planned the air attack to destroy the Soviet nuclear missiles during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. His refusal of the Nixon White HouseÕs offer of nuclear missiles and the alternative he planned and executed helped end the war in Vietnam.

These are his stories as he told them.

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Danny Carvajal
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 5
Better than the Chronicles
Format: Paperback
I hope DC keeps on publishing these omnibus series up to the silver age and also the softcover option. I much prefer these new softcover editions over the older chronicles series for several reasons. These STGA softcovers are very big almost twice the stories compared to the chronicles and at a very affordable price. Actually a very good price. Also the paper is one hundred times better, I hated the chronicles' paper. Amazon is wonderful too, they now deliver my comics to my house in Costa Rica in less than a couple of weeks, they always arrive before the scheduled time. Excellent service. The only thing to complain is the reproduction. I consider that Marvel makes better efforts than DC to restore their GA stuff. The Cory Sedlemeier books like the Marvel Comics Golden Age omnibus look like they were drawn this morning. DC is usually quite cheaper and prefers not invest in that. So we get the same results as the old early 2000s Archives. I know today it is impossible to get original art pages of action comics 1-10 But I still think that compared to Marvel DC is very lazy and a skintflint when it comes to restoring their old books.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018
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DJN
Houston, US
★★★★★ 5
Fun!!!
Format: Kindle
Obviously dated but still lots of fun! From a cultural point of view, the art and storytelling were interesting. Certainly work a look!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
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Jay jay chavez
Belleville, US
★★★★★ 4
Got it for my college class, it was a required text.
Format: Paperback
Got this book for one my college class, no joke this was a required text. But overall it was an okay read, only reason why I gave it a 4 out 5 is because I prefer to read books for enjoyment and interest, reading a book for class takes that away.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2025
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natalie jones
Lexington, US
★★★★★ 5
Great fun
Format: Kindle
There's just something super swell about these old superman stories. There's a charm to them them that's completely unmatched. Love it
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Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2025
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Elvin Ortiz
Grantham, US
★★★★★ 5
Superman, a Dark Knight in the Skies
Format: Paperback
This is a beautiful tome of the first issues of Superman under Action Comics and the first Superman issue. Although providing the same texts of Chronicles, I find this series better because they have more issues per volume. In spite of its 390 pages, these volumes are light and easy to handle. Albeit the simplicity and innocence of these stories, Superman impresses me as a "dark knight" of the skies given his toughness with the bad guys. In these stories, he's got no compassion for criminals. He also defends the working class, stand for fair treatment of workers, and even takes an "isolationist" stance which was popular in the days before WWII. Another surprise for the first-time reader of this period is that Superman can't fly; he can only leap over tall buildings. There is no Krypton and no Daily Planet. The city of Metropolis is introduced for the first time in the second half of this tome. And Lois Lane is often relegated to unimportant journalistic tasks, while she has greater ambitions. It is a great experience to read these old stories in a beautifully designed tome. I hope they reproduce the others quickly.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016

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