The+Golden+Age+of+Comics

The period from the late 1930s to the middle 1940s is known as the Golden Age of comic books. The modern comic book came about in the early 1930s in the United States as a giveaway premium to promote the sales of a whole range of household products such as cereal and cleansers. The comic books, which were printed in bright colors to attract the attention of potential customers, proved so popular that some publishers decided to produce comic books that would come out on a monthly basis and would sell for a <range type="comment" id="564671773_9">dime </range id="564671773_9">each. <range type="comment" id="564671773_10">Though </range id="564671773_10">comic strips had been reproduced in publications prior to this time, the Famous Funnies comic book, which was started in 1934, marked the first <range type="comment" id="564671773_11">occasion </range id="564671773_11">that a <range type="comment" id="564671773_12">serialized </range id="564671773_12">book of comics was <range type="comment" id="564671773_13">attempted</range id="564671773_13">. Early comic books reprinted already existing comic strips and comics based on known characters; however, publishers soon began <range type="comment" id="564671773_14">introducing </range id="564671773_14">original characters developed specifically for comic books, Superman was introduced in Action Comics in 1938, and Batman was introduced a year later. The <range type="comment" id="564671773_15">tremendous </range id="564671773_15">success of these super hero comic books <range type="comment" id="564671773_16">led </range id="564671773_16">to the development of numerous comic books on a variety of topics, though superhero comic books <range type="comment" id="564671773_17">predominated</range id="564671773_17">. <range type="comment" id="564671773_18">Astonishingly</range id="564671773_18">, by 1945 <range type="comment" id="564671773_19">approximately </range id="564671773_19">160 different comic books were being published in the United States each month, and 90 percent of U.S. children were said to read comic books on a <range type="comment" id="564671773_20">regular </range id="564671773_20">basis.