...your guide to the history and details of the 100+ year American comic book medium.
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...your guide to the history and details of the 100+ year American comic book medium. |
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The
Golden Era
Pre-Golden
Age... 1896 to 1937
In
the beginning...
Early
commercial attempts...
More
strips debut...
Birth
of the modern comic...
Commercial
success at last...
Even
more strips debut...
DC
Comics begins publication...
An
explosion of publishers...
Detective
Comics cometh...The
Golden Age... 1938 to 1945
Joe,
Jerry, and Superman...
Try,
try, again...
Onward
from Action No. 1...
Enter
The Batman...
Here
come the heroes...
The
Boy Wonder and Green Lantern...
More
heroes appear...
War
and patriotism...
The
superhero rollout continues...
Paper
shortages...
End
of an Era...Post-Golden
Age... 1945 to 1950
A
new era...
Romance
comics begin...
Western
genre heats up...
Crime
comics explode...
The
superhero slide continues...
Dark
times ahead...The
Silver Era
Pre-Silver
Age... 1950 to 1956
Rising
from the ashes...
War's
rebirth, superheroe's fall...
The
Seduction of the Innocent...
The
Comic Code...
A
new era begins...The
Silver Age 1956 to 1969
Introducing
the Flash...
Marvel
almost goes under...
The
DC Renaissance...
Atom,
JLA, Aquaman and more...
The
Marvel Age of Comics...
Superheroes roll on...
Silver
Age curtain begins to close...Post-Silver
Age 1970 to 1980
A
time for change...
Drugs,
The Code, and price increases...
Punisher,
X-Men, & Wolverine...
New
titles, Xovers, & publishers...
And
then there were two...
