Jonns fame has extended past comics and into hit animated DC shows, and a few solo mini-series have blessed the Martian ...

"The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America" by David Hajdu Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 434 pp., $26 In the 1950s ...

He led Marvel from 1978-87 and oversaw the publishing of classic stories from Frank Miller on 'Daredevil' and Chis Claremont ...

Comics historians date the origin of comic books to the early 1930s, with the 1938 publication of “ Action Comics #1,” the debut of Superman, marking their rise to mass popularity.

Julius Schwartz, the influential DC Comics editor whose successful revamping of the Flash, Green Lantern and other defunct 1940s superheroes in the late 1950s and early '60s led to what became ...

Mort Sahl, Caustic Stand-Up Comic of the 1950s, Dies at 94. The intellectual king of the political potshot, known for his trademark V-neck sweater and rolled-up newspaper, ridiculed presidents and ...

Comic books and anti-racism: SDSU lecture explores social issues media from the 1950s Qiana Witted is an author and professor at the University of South Carolina, who will discuss “Captions and ...

Author Recalls 1950s 'Hysteria' That Suppressed an Industry. In his new book "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America," David Hajdu chronicles one of the ...

In November 2015, an image purportedly showing a vintage Superman poster in which the comic book hero talks to children about the importance of respecting diversity began circulating online: While ...

A recent series of comics that appeared on Sina Weibo show the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda comics in 1950, depicting China 60 years later, i.e., in 2010.