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1930s: The Origin of the American Comic Book
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 18, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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the comic book first arose in America in the mid-          
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the demand for a new form of                           
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in small towns, we were becoming aware that we were apart of something              than just a small town
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all of America was facing                  depression
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country was facing the threat of        in Europe
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people were looking for                of entertainment
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comic books were inexpensive and                     
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you paid 10 cents instead of going to the             
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allowed people to transport themselves beyond their day-to-day experience
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other forms of entertainment at the time
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theater
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big          sound was starting
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movies
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fascination with the                  film
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there were many well-known gangsters in society
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they were celebrities
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             Brothers understood this
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created by the                        brothers who emigrated as small children with their parents to Canada from Krasnosielc which was located in the part of Congress Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empire following the eighteenth-century Partitions of Poland near present-day Ostrołęka
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1903: opened their first theater in New Castle,                         
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Warner brothers took the plots from the                      of the time
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John                    (1903–1934)
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operated the Dillinger Gang which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four              stations
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escaped from jail twice
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grew up in Indianapolis
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his              grandfather, Matthias Dillinger, emigrated to the United States in 1851 from Metz
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Al              (1899-1947)
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American gangster who attained fame during the                        era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit
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born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to                immigrants
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typical American family in the evenings at home
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gathered around the           
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basked in its audio glow just as if it were a                   
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       gave fireside chats on radio
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became extensions of a form of entertainment
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entertainment that gave us information
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forerunners of the American comic book
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two influences
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1.          magazines
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the were called pulp fiction because of the paper they were printed on
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were appealing to            people
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unfinished pieces of paper
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had rough edges
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it was an                      experienced
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characters coming out of the pulp magazines
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The             
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became a comic book
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then a radio show
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then became a movie serial
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in essence, the first multimedia star
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Flash Gordon
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Tarzan
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Superman
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largely centered around             
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the producers wanted capitalize on the                in America and the world at the time, i.e. a superhero is needed
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we were seeking a hero who could solve all our                 , and these comic strip characters seemed to offer this possibility
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2. newspaper            strips
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comic strips also began appearing in newspapers
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             and Perisphere
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radios from the 1930s had these shapes on them
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came from two                        structures, together known as the Theme Center at the center of the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940
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these two symbols were used in the                        of the fair
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motto was "Dawn of a New       " and "The World of Tomorrow"
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they wanted to lead America out of the depression and toward a new                 
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DC Comics
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founded 1934
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the initials DC came from the company's popular series Detective Comics,
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produced Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Shazam, Martian Manhunter, Hawkman and            Arrow
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currently a subsidiary of Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner.
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also used the trylon and perisphere on their magazine
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the 1940 magazine which showed Batman, Robin and Superman together was a statement that there is a DC                  in which all of our DC characters coexist
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Superman was referred to both as "The Man of           " but also as "The Man of Tomorrow"
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Superman launched in Action Comics #1 on April 18,         
1930s: The Origin of the American Comic Book
1938: The Birth of Superman
The People Behind the Golden Age of Comic Books
Patriotic Superheroes
Comic Books after World War II
Comic Books in the McCarthy Era
1954: Fredric Wertham's Impact on the Comic Book Industry
1960s: The Silver Age of Comics
The Bronze Age of Comics and the Genre of Relevancy