Archie Comics

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…

(the section that features Lola and her story is narrated entirely by Lola), and, whereas he seems to know everything that goes on, the reader may notice that Yunior does not put quotation marks around conversations between individuals. In Marvel Comics, the Watchers seem to only make a brief appearance at some point in the story (usually at the beginning), and from there let the characters tell their own story; the reader completely forgets that the entire adventure is being told by an…

In 2009, Zack Snyder filmed the first and only adaption of what was considered to be an “unfilmable” (Van Ness 172) graphic novel: Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Moore was a firm believer in the fact that it was a story unable to be transferred over from a comic to another medium – the story was meant to stay in the medium it was designed for. The graphic novel allows for a complex, metatextual narrative structure to be employed to tell such the story of Watchmen that is filled with much ambiguity. In…

opening new streams of revenue. DC Entertainment has had various successes launching movies such as The Dark Knight, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and Man of Steel. Together these movies alone account for $1.64 billion in sales ("DC Comics" Boxofficemojo.com). As can be seen, DC Entertainment has acquired a large fan base. Lastly, DC Entertainment has already created a storyline that Disney can adopt. This includes well-known heroes and villains such as Batman, Superman,…

what is the purpose of female superheroes? A-Force is a comic that was introduced to the public on May 2015. The comic is taken…

As my generation has grown up, it has been a trend for movie makers to make the old superhero comics and films into new and improved superhero films. In all the films that I have seen advertised, on DVD, or in theaters, a man has been portrayed as the big and strong main character/superhero and the woman has been portrayed as the “damsel in distress.” Even on the posters for the movies the guy is made to look larger than the woman even if she has the privilege to be on the poster. Sexism is a…

to speak on this matter because she went through a situation similar to Calvin’s. She writes “…he taught an entire generation of children…” implying and assuming that every kid in that generation was taught the same lesson she had learned from the comic (244). Just like Hill, Rubin also displays a confidence when she boldly writes “The way that Coca-Cola chooses to place the objects and depict men and women in this ad speaks volumes about American society in the middle of the twentieth century”…

Superman, Supergirl, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Spiderman. These are all heros, and they have done a plethora of things to gaian that significant title. Mitty Blake, the main character in Code Orange a fiction novel by Caroline B. Cooney, wanted to be on that list of heros. When readers met Mitty Blake, he was sixteen year old living in New York City who cared about nothing but music, his school work was never done nor did he even know what it was. Mitty Blake was writing a report on viruses…

Dark Knight which Christopher Nolan has definitely changed. One of the smaller changes Christopher Nolan has made from Batman Begins to The Dark Knight would be the batman suit. The suit in Batman Begins looks a lot more like the suit used in the comic books whereas the suit used in The Dark Knight reflects a more real-world concept of the character batman. He does this by making the suit in The Dark Knight look more flexible and comfortable to fight in, there are also more segmented pieces over…

The cast of fantastical characters with extravagant super powers in the DC Comics universe banded together to form the Justice League of America in 1960. The team sported one Jacob amongst the throng of Goliaths: The Batman. Not only was he the only member of the JLA without any powers, he’s one of the two iconic leaders of the…