Similar to the digital comic museum, which we wrote about last week, comic book plus contains a near inexhaustible quantity of golden and silver age comic books. My friend craig yoe edited a great anthology of old, forgotten comic book stories, called the unknown antiwar comics. There was, briefly, a jungle comic book jungle tales costarring waku, prince of the bantu, in a series of 6page stories f. Subscribe to marvel unlimited to access thousands of digital comics for one low price. Narrated in a third person mode, the magazine started the unique trend of telling a story, bound by a common thread of moral values. Initially, ec was owned by maxwell gaines and specialized in educational and childoriented stories. Welcome to comic book plus, the site where every day is party day. Get the best deals on golden age classics illustrated comics when you shop the largest online selection at.
Women being spanked in vintage comic books flashbak. In the 1950s, a moral panic swept across america and turned comic books into a social menace. In the 1950s, comic books starring heroic black characters were rare. The first recorded use of the term golden age was by richard a. The origin story of comics, however, is much more complicated. The golden age of comics comics have been in existence since the end of the 19th century, but it was after the depression that the popularity of newspaper cartoons expanded into a major industry.
Plus, we also hold a large and growing selection of comic strips and pulp fiction. Greatest 12 characters of the 1940s who is on this list, what this list is about and how they got on the list. Comic book plus free and legal public domain books. Ajaxfarrell was a comic book publishing house from the 1950s owned by farrell publishing. Do you know more such interesting books and comics. The collections timespan ranges from the late 1930s through to the early 1960s, and includes many thousands of comic books in the superhero, scifi, and horror genres.
With the advent of television and the wrath of congress, the comic book industry simultaneously faced the two greatest threats to its existence in the 1950s. Wertham was an anti comic book crusader who did some serious damage back in the 1950s. A new world new stuff the 1950 s was an odd time for comic books. The comics code authority cca was formed in 1954 by the comics magazine association of america as an alternative to government regulation. Comicbook controversy is a cautionary tale nbc news. These small 8page comics were sold in tobacco shops, barber shops, bars or other places that were frequented by a largely male clientele. Collection of stories published in various dc comics publications in the 1950s. Some of them originally sold for ten cents, but now go for millions. Most folks dont remember the 1950s bonfires of the funny books, but ec fans couldnt forget their lurid first love.
This week, our artists paired sonic the hedgehog and sonicrelated characters with other comic book characters. Steinway comics, americas best comics, four star publications, excellent publications, farrell comics, four star comic corp. New york feds educational comic book series federal. The new york fed has published comic books since the 1950s and is reintroducing this popular series with a modern spinand now in spanish. Batman earned his own selftitled comic book in 1940, while continuing to be featured in detective comics. As an entertainment medium, comics were the digital devices of their day. They are the handheld, take anywhere books filled with superheroes, classic stories, or adult dramas. The mostly americanmade tijuana bibles are widely considered to be the first underground comic books. Does anyone know a title of a book in which a character of the story was named honey shaw. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. Yoe, a comic book aficionado, is cocurator of comics stripped, an exhibit that opened this week at new york citys museum of sex and traces the titillating history of erotica in comic books.
In the us market, horror comic books reached a peak in the late 1940s through the mid 1950s, when concern over content and the imposition of the selfcensorship comics code authority contributed to the demise of many titles and the toning down of others. Why comic books scared us so captain marvel reduced to ashes by terrified parents. While the comic books are intended for a student audience, they are also. The insane history of how american paranoia ruined and censored comic books by alex abadsantos updated mar, 2015, 1. The cca allowed the comic publishers to selfregulate the content of comic books in the united states. David hajdu examines the great comic book panic of the 1950s. Why my mother threw out my comic books part 1 of 3 webages by adam. Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. If todays generation y and zers accuse us baby boomers of being cynical and distrustful, well, i for one blame it all on comic books.
The insane history of how american paranoia ruined and. These are the years when comics were considered a new and exciting form of art. In this video, we take a look at my top 20 picks for the best, most culturally significant comic book of the 1950s. Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, blackandwhite comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction. A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that. The first edition of chandamama was released in july, 1947. Sales could be counted in hundreds of millions, and more than 80% of kids and 90% of teens were reading them.
If youve stumbled across a find of vintage comic books and recognize one or more of the ones on this page, then stop whatever youre doing and contact us immediately for a free comic book appraisal. However, the first story is actually a lot of fun and certainly worth including the whole 24page story. Heres a threepage story from the anthology about a. The superhero archetype was created and many wellknown characters were introduced, including superman, batman, captain marvel, captain america, and wonder woman. Legendary comics creator nicola cuti, creator of eman and moonchild the starbabe, has passed away at the age of 75. Comic books in the 1950s the golden age of comic books origin of the term. Greatest 1950s stories ever told tpb 1995 dc comic books. We are the original and still the premier site to read and download golden and silver age comic books. Synopsis this is one of a set of lists i made showing a progression.
It was a massive week for television trailers and promos, with all of the biggest assembled right here. In addition, lesson plans created for each comic book meet national and state standards for new york, new jersey, and connecticut. Its brand was published under numerous imprint publishers such as. Why my mother threw out my comic books part 1 of 3 webages by adam blatner reposted november 18, 2009 this is based on a talk given on 61209 to the summer session of the senior university georgetown. Some strict collectors consider the era finished by 1950. The golden age of comic books describes an era of american comic books from 1938 to 1956. Part i last week, i started a twopart column on the greatest comic book characters of the 1950s and 60s. The worlds largest selection of comic books, from batman and superman comic books to. Golden age classics illustrated comics for sale ebay. Atlas comics is the 1950s comic book publishing label that evolved into marvel comics.
The true story of the holocaust train rescued from the heart of darkness friday, april th, 1945. In the 1950s, a moral panic swept across the country one in which parents and children burned comic books by. Comic book advertisements were a common feature in american comic books from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eerily prescient 1950s comic book about the wall boing. Classics illustrated comic book tom sawyer mark twain golden age comics. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. Magazine and paperback novel publisher martin goodman, whose business strategy involved having a multitude of corporate entities, used atlas as the umbrella name for his comic book division during this time. Truly rare comic books may come along once or twice in a lifetime. Were comic books the cause for a rising tide of juvenile delinquency in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1950s, a moral panic swept across the country one in which parents and children burned comic books by the bushel in public. Overall, this book is not a perfect collection of 1950s dc comics but it contains of good comic reading with generally strong stories from wellknown series that it highlights as well a lot of forgotten series that are worth a read. Since this is banned books week, ive come to bury dr. The greatest 1950s stories ever told by mike gold goodreads. The story of how comic books became public enemy no.
First, a brief history of comic books from their origins to the late 1940s. Greatest 12 characters of the 1940s comic vine comic. Lupoff in an article called rebirth in issue 1 of fanzines comic art in april 1960 shift from superheroes. Critics certainly thought so, writes david hajdu in a new book chronicling the rise and fall of the. This is an extensive storysee the references belowso this. With ebay, you dont have to choose sides, because we have plenty of any option. Most comic book lovers pledge allegiance to either dc comics featuring that famous alien from krypton and aquaman, among many othersor marvel comics, which gave us the webslinging spiderman, the new mutants and patriotic captain america. Like many comic book publishers of the day, ace comics earlier series included costumed superheroes, although as trends in the comic book market changed by the 1950s the focus shifted more to other genres, such as crime, horror. Entertaining comics, more commonly known as ec comics, was an american publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid 1950s, notably the tales from the crypt series.