comic video.

 Notes from the histoy of comics video.
This video was made in 2003 so this may seem slighty outdated. in 1938 superman was born. superman had become a national icon, but not many people belived in ti to become so big. comics came big in newspapers. all newspapers said no to superman,  in 1938 super man was finally published after struggle to get it published. unlike most newspaper comics superman could relate to the world of 1938, what made superman relate to people he was given an alter ego who is said to be the best american. fro. there superman went huge with videos and a daily comic strip in newspapers. the next superhero to be created was batman by two new writers but was completely different to superman having no superpowers and fighting crime with smarts. no dc had two huge comic superheroes. it wasnt long until other writers got into the super hero business. they had a huge competition froma company calls timely comics also known as marvel they where definatly better drawn. marvel came up with the 60 page comic which set the standard.  stan lee started working for marvel and wanted to create comics that where more suitable for older readers. dc came up with the irst sidekick robin giving batman a fater figure and then loads of sidekicks where created which doubled the sales.  marvel created a super hero called captain marvel which dc found a slight rip off of superman so after a while of elling better than superman captain marvel was stopped. comics where at war with each other to make the best comics and then the comics started to create comics with the superheroes fighting hitler giving people hope. later from that captain america was made with his first comic being the front cover of him punching hitler which got loads of hate mail. captain america was created by joe simon and jack kirby made captain and gave the hero and sidekick. the writers came caught up in political war problem. comic books where then sent over to the soliders in packages and they liked them. ww2 became the peak of comics ssales because people enjoyed reading about the americans winning the war. wonder woman was created by a psycatrist and was a form of facism, she was one of the first woman super hero,wonder woman showed [eople fighting back or lose. the female aspect was heavily played but the woman had quite a masciline look, the writers of marvel left to go to war and the publishers took over the super heroes and changed the way the looked and acted and made them more patriotic and changed there background story. after ww2 the super heroes faded and new comics where born such as teen comics horror comics and others. comic books became a said virus because prisoners where reading them and now comics where being attacked. after the publicity and goverment attackes the goverment came up with a comic code that gave authority to publish the comic.by 1951 most heroes where cancelled and the only ones left where batman,superman and wonder woman. in 1956 flash was remade and then so where others and made more up to date with new technology. fgroups of super heroes where becoming big with the first one being justice league and then stan lee from marvel made the fantastic four. this is when timely comics became marvel. comics started to increase in the age readers going from young kids to high schoolers.

Summary.
The video was very informative and really helped to see how these comics actually changed the way people thought about the war and how they changed peoples lives.