Comic Booking

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I can say I’ve read a few comic books in my lifetime and I can see how popular they became at their birth. Rising artist’s were very free at the beginning of comic booking. Government brought halts to the industry by coding and limiting.

Superman was created in 1938, and it’s a bird it’s a plane it’s superman became very popular, very quickly. As an industry, they began printing more and more each week. Comic books were becoming very popular and flashy. The skill of the artist started coming into play. Kirby supported the war and the troops by writing his comics. The growing popularity of comic books forced newspaper companies to produce comics in their columns to keep customers interested in news as well as comics.

1950’s were creeping up and the comics themselves were changing. Not only were there superhero comics, there were sci-fi comic books as well as Love comic books.

Comic books were becoming grosser and grosser. The government was eventually looking at comics a different way. Comic books were becoming more mature and grotesque. Great crimes were depicted and also sexual activity and lust. Do not forget that comic books had a young audience and the government was claiming that these cartoons were changing the youth into believing certain ideals. Ideas of stealing or killing were what the government was concerned about. Words like terror and weird were ruled out of comic books due to code changes. The code put anything that was good in comics out of business. A pre-requisite to art was freedom and the code brought down many industries of comic books. Robert Crumb wanted to do things his own way. The media was only buying the mainstream comic books about superheroes. Parody created many artists to become victims of copyrights and lawsuits. American Splendor contained real content and real stories.

Batman was one of only a few superheroes that survived the decades. Many comic book writers wanted to live through their stories, and so they did and created stories they felt were interesting and disregarded the media and government.

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