During the Golden Age, it was not uncommon for a single comic book issue to sell over one million copies. A popularity spike of comic books started mostly during World War II. Marvel and DC comics were the most favored. Marvel was created in 1939, and was known as Timely Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Spider-Man and Wolverine are the most well-known heroes from Marvel. DC Comics also known as Detective Comics, were founded in 1935, by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Comic books impacted American culture views by showing propaganda, feminism, and nationalism in them.
Propaganda is used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Some of the beloved superheroes were created around World War II. For example, Captain …show more content…
Clark Kent or Superman is created in 1938. Kent was born on his planet, Krypton, but his parents put him in a spaceship and sent him to Earth in order to save him, since his planet was going to be destroyed along with everyone in it. Superman fought Mussolini and Hitler as well. Clark was featured in various propaganda pieces, mostly with American soldiers through 1945 and the end of the second war. On Superman’s 12th issue showed Superman walking arm in arm with a soldier and a sailor. From that moment on, Superman was shown sinking battle ships, tying cannon barrels into knots, and riding bombs toward "Japanazis", a term first coined in Superman #18 to define the unified threat of Japan and German armies (Harrington). More and more superheroes are being drawn into different propaganda positions like Captain Marvel. On one of his comic covers that is called, “Capt. Marvel Swats the Japs” in 1939. Daredevil, Batman, Robin, Cat-man, Green Hornet, etc. have all been seen battling against Adolf Hitler and all of them …show more content…
Captain America and Superman were the first to get really involved with nationalism, other superheroes being Captain Marvel, Captain Britain, Captain Canada, etc… Uncle Sam was created in order to get people to sign up for the army. A slain Revolutionary War soldier, Uncle Sam was a member of the Justice League of America (Jones and Jacobs). Superman used his radio broadcast to expose the evils of anti-Semitism along with the savagery of the Ku Klux Klan. And in his first TV appearance the muscle-bound alien stood up to rabble-rousing mobs at the very moment when Senator Joseph McCarthy was whipping those mobs into a Red Scare (Tye). As the Golden Age ends, fears of juvenile delinquency lead media critics and legislators to scrutinize the role of comic books in American life. As the Golden Age ends, fears of juvenile delinquency lead media critics and legislators to scrutinize the role of comic books in American life ("Heroes and Villains:
Propaganda is used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Some of the beloved superheroes were created around World War II. For example, Captain …show more content…
Clark Kent or Superman is created in 1938. Kent was born on his planet, Krypton, but his parents put him in a spaceship and sent him to Earth in order to save him, since his planet was going to be destroyed along with everyone in it. Superman fought Mussolini and Hitler as well. Clark was featured in various propaganda pieces, mostly with American soldiers through 1945 and the end of the second war. On Superman’s 12th issue showed Superman walking arm in arm with a soldier and a sailor. From that moment on, Superman was shown sinking battle ships, tying cannon barrels into knots, and riding bombs toward "Japanazis", a term first coined in Superman #18 to define the unified threat of Japan and German armies (Harrington). More and more superheroes are being drawn into different propaganda positions like Captain Marvel. On one of his comic covers that is called, “Capt. Marvel Swats the Japs” in 1939. Daredevil, Batman, Robin, Cat-man, Green Hornet, etc. have all been seen battling against Adolf Hitler and all of them …show more content…
Captain America and Superman were the first to get really involved with nationalism, other superheroes being Captain Marvel, Captain Britain, Captain Canada, etc… Uncle Sam was created in order to get people to sign up for the army. A slain Revolutionary War soldier, Uncle Sam was a member of the Justice League of America (Jones and Jacobs). Superman used his radio broadcast to expose the evils of anti-Semitism along with the savagery of the Ku Klux Klan. And in his first TV appearance the muscle-bound alien stood up to rabble-rousing mobs at the very moment when Senator Joseph McCarthy was whipping those mobs into a Red Scare (Tye). As the Golden Age ends, fears of juvenile delinquency lead media critics and legislators to scrutinize the role of comic books in American life. As the Golden Age ends, fears of juvenile delinquency lead media critics and legislators to scrutinize the role of comic books in American life ("Heroes and Villains: