PREMIUM: Comics Corner #9 | The History of Superhero Comics: Part I
Connor and Harry provide a condensed history of American superhero comics, starting with the precursive Platinum Age, their creation in the Golden Age, and the censorious Comics Code’s creation in the Silver Age.
Reading List
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Douglas Wolk, Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean - Google Books
Marvel Just Reprinted Stan Lee's Most Important Soapbox, Ever - CBR
The Platinum Age - TheComicBooks.com
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Paul Lopes, Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book - Google Books
Jean-Paul Gabilliet, Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books - Google Books
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Google Books
Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America - John Hopkins
Les Daniels, Superman: The Complete History - Google Books
Danny Fingeroth, Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics and the Creation of the Superhero - Google Books
Grant Morison, Supergods - Google Books
Thomas Sowell: The myth of how the Great Depression was resolved - Washington Examiner
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression - Foundation for Economic Education
Look Up in the Sky! | The Amazing Story of Superman - DC - YouTube
Why congressman Robert Garcia will be sworn in with an original Superman #1 comic - Entertainment Weekly
William Moulton Marston, ‘Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics’ - The American Scholar
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics | Full-Length Documentary | Warner Bros. Entertainment - Warner Bros. Entertainment - YouTube
What killed Jerry Siegel’s father? - Comic Book Historians
Check that bought Superman rights for $130 sells for $160,000 - Reuters
Unspeakable: Bob Kane Stole all the Credit for Creating Batman - Comic Tropes - YouTube
Black Bat (Literature) - TV Tropes
Bob Kane traced The Shadow - Dial B For Blog - Archive
Steranko Discusses Working with Stan Lee, Slapping Bob Kane - CBR
Jim Steranko tweets story about slapping Bob Kane - Comics Alliance
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Captain Marvel Jr and Elvis Presley - Elvis.com
Matthew J. Costello, Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America - Google Books
The Sub-Mariner Turns 80. He’s Still Super. - New York Times
How Superman Would End the War - Web Archive
Sterling North’s ‘A National Disgrace / And a Challenge to American Parents’ - Crisis of Innocence
The Comics Code - Comic Book Legal Defence Fund
Comics Code History: The Seal of Approval - Comic Book Legal Defence Fund
Amy Kiste Nyberg, Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code - Google Books
Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent - Web Archive
Hollywood Was Always Red: A Rant - The Rageaholic - YouTube
The German Pedo Experiment | The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #182
1954 Kefauver Hearing Transcripts - The Comic Books
Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications that Helped Condemn Comics - Academia.edu
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