Comic During The Great Depression

During the Great depression people wanted an escape from reality, so they turned to the “funnies” or comics. In 1933 the first true comic book was published. No longer were publishers relying on the newspaper stips for thier content ,they were creating their own. In the the “Golden Age “ of comics the characters were more one dimensional, super heroes came around the time that america did then, Super heroes became a symbol of america and military propaganda .the Silver AGe of comics came along the 150’s and there was a revamped of the golden age super heroes. New super heroes and super heroes team up were becoming a cult hit in the comic book industry.

The Golden Age of comic book was the beginning of the comic book industry as we know it and a …show more content…
The rise of comic when up to the roof about 70 million americans were reading comics, it became a cult phenomenon. In 1937, the first issue of detective comics came out and it was DC first comic. Then everything completely changed in 1938 when two young men Jerry Siegel and Joe shuster came out with a idea a mean with red and blue tayts with a S symble with super powers that no other man could have and his name was Superman. Superman until this day is one of the most famous superheroes in the word ,when you superman came out he change the whole comic book industry and comic book character would be created. In 1039 DC had another success in their hands with Detective comics #27 with the first appearances of batman, a character every different from Superman. Superman was man justice and the iconic american hero while Batman was grim and gritty, there been many versions of bat batman but the original version was a masked vigilante who when kill criminals.Batman has had many thing change about the character in the year but is still of the best selling comics of this