We’re currently living in a new golden age of comics, where the main characters are finally beginning to look like the people who’ve always read them. There’s an openly gay (and unabashedly sexual) ...
The early 1940s saw DC Comics lay the foundation of the superhero genre, with costumed heroes like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. People were enthralled by the escapism from the horrors of World ...
In 1954, the United States Senate held hearings to deal with a raging menace that it feared was fueling a nationwide crisis of juvenile delinquency—the comic book. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said ...