• The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first...
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  • Following the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Silver Age is considered to cover the period from 1956 to 1970, and was succeeded by the Bronze Age. The popularity...
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  • The Modern Age of Comic Books is a period in the history of American superhero comic books which began in the mid-1980s and continues through the present...
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  • The Bronze Age of Comic Books is an informal name for a period in the history of American superhero comic books, usually said to run from 1970 to 1985...
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  • featured original material, and the first appearance of Superman in 1938 launched the Golden Age of Comic Books. During World War II, superheroes and talking...
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  • (Wesley Dodds) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first of several DC characters to bear the name Sandman, he...
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  • The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late...
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  • comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by the writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared during the Golden Age of comic...
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  • comic books to publishers testing the waters of the emerging medium. As early packager Will Eisner noted at this time, around 1936, [T]the only comic...
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    Western comics (redirect from Western comic)
    west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century. The term is generally associated with an American comic books genre...
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    the Golden Age of Comic Books. The Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. According to historian Michael A. Amundson, appealing comic-book...
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  • their overall character. During the Golden Age of Comic Books (a time during which the medium evolved from comic strips) women who were not superheroes...
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    1939, during the era called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp magazine publisher Goodman,...
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    early 20th-century Golden Age of Comic Books, period between roughly 1938 and 1945, though exact definitions vary Golden Age of Mexican cinema, beginning...
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    late 1930s through roughly the end of the 1940s is referred to by comic book experts as the Golden Age of comic books. It featured extremely large print-runs...
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  • Krypton is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, most commonly appearing or mentioned in stories starring the superhero...
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  • following is a list of Marvel Comics Golden Age characters and teams that first appeared in Marvel Comics during the Golden Age of Comic Books (late 1930s and...
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  • home of characters whose adventures had been published in the Golden Age of comic books. This allowed creators to publish Superman comic books taking...
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  • posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1999. Born in New Castle...
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  • Doctor Occult (category Golden Age superheroes)
    and user of magic who specializes in cases involving the supernatural. Doctor Occult first appeared in 1935 around the Golden Age of Comic Books. He was...
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  • American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist Paul Gustavson and an unconfirmed writer during the Golden Age of Comic Books, the Angel...
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  • Clock (character) (category Golden Age superheroes)
    created in 1936, during the Golden Age of Comic Books. He was the first fully-masked hero to appear in American comic books. Created by cartoonist George...
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    The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the popularization of sound synchronized cartoons in...
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  • Nodell with scripting or co-scripting of the first stories by Bill Finger during the Golden Age of Comic Books and usually fought common criminals in...
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  • Quality Comics was a comic book company from the Golden Age of Comic Books. It operated from 1937 to 1956 and sold many anthology comic books that starred superheroes...
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  • Mike Roy (category High School of Art and Design alumni)
    (1921–1996) was a Canadian comic book and comic strip artist, working during the Golden Age of Comic Books and the Silver Age of Comic Books. He is best known...
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  • Detective Chimp (category Legion of Super-Pets)
    final years of the Golden Age of Comic Books, continuing into the early years of the Silver Age. After his initial appearance in Adventures of Rex the Wonder...
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  • #105 (Feb. 1952), in the period between the Golden Age of Comic Books and the Silver Age of Comic Books. The Midgard Serpent debuted in Marvel Tales...
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    Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett) (category Infobox comic book title param (addpubcat))
    his first appearance in Fox's Mystery Men Comics #1 during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Garret is the first character to become the superhero Blue Beetle...
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    Bob McCay (category Golden Age comics creators)
    during the golden age of comic books. He worked professionally under the names R. Winsor McCay, Winsor McCay Jr., and Bob McCay. He was the son of cartoonist...
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