Since his debut in 1940's Action Comics #23, Luthor has evolved from a somewhat gimmicky Golden Age bad guy into one of the ...

Fertig describes how the comic book industry’s response to the Nazis and other Axis Powers grew from tentative (a 1940 issue of Daring Mystery Comics changed “Hitler” to “Hiller”) to ...

Captain America should be the most jingoistic superhero. But on this July Fourth, it's good to remember that he, like America ...

As theatrical as the comic book burnings were, comics publishers hadn't seen the worst of it. In 1954, Senate hearings debated the merits of crime and horror comics.

We live in a world of mass media, where many forms of media can be used for entertainment or education. In the early 20th ...

In a CBR review of the New History of the DC Universe #1, see how the great comic historian, Mark Waid, rewrites DC history ...

Blue Beetle's 1940 Comic Book Series Power-Up, at Auction. 1940 was Blue Beetle's year, with the launch of his own series, a newspaper strip and a radio show which combined to create a new origin.

Captain Marvel proved to be one of the most popular superhero comics of the Golden Age, regularly outselling the adventures of Superman during the 1940s. The sales of comic books increased ...

The complete list of every comic book movie ever nominated for an Academy Award, going all the way back to the 1940s. This story has been updated to reflect the nominees of the 96th Academy Awards ...

After Graham’s book of government comics was published, he heard from one of the consultants who helped author the comic. “He was a chaplain, attached to a Virginia company.