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The People Behind the Golden Age of Comic Books
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 28, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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Shield, entrepreneurial, Iron, Jackpot, fortunes, Batman, Eisner, Marvel, Shazam, Jewish, newspaper, Kirby, Nicholson, 1959, lie, patriotic, Robin, Goodman, graphic, Gaines, Superman, Archie, storyteller, Brainiac, DC, Simon, distributing, Lee, interest, Stag, Boy
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in the first half of the 1900s, the wave of immigrations of immigrants continued from Eastern Europe and Russia
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many settled in New York
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many looking to make large
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but this is not what many found in the Great Depression of the 1930s
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but their spirit prevailed for some
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Max (1895-1947)
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in 1933, devised the first four-color, saddle-stitched newsprint pamphlet, a precursor to the color-comics format that became the standard for the American comic book industry
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comic strips were popular
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so he made a comic book and sold it at some news stands in New York City
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Famous Funnies started to take root in America
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Major Malcolm Wheeler (1890-1965)
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pioneered the American comic book
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published first periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips
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his National Allied Publications would evolve into Comics
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formed when National Allied Publications was taken over by Harry Donenfeld and Jacob Liebowitz
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one of the U.S.'s two largest comic book publishers along with rival Comics
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Martin (1908-1992)
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got in late in 1939, calling his comic line Timely Comics
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later became Marvel Comics
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was a businessman
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happy to be publishing comics but comics didn't him much
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he had a magazine called and one called Male
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years before Playboy
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also had a detective magazine
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he was more interested in these slick paper magazine than in the comics
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so he left the comics to Stan Lee (1922-)
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but he was interested in the covers
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spent a lot of time playing Scrabble in his office with a friend
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had been in the business originally
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learned how to publish magazines
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had many titles in different fields
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John Goldwater (1906-1999)
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co-creator of
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worked with
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Louis Silberkleit (1900-1986)
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Morris Coyne
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moved from pulp magazines into comic books
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created
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MLJ Comics
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Blue Ribbon Comics
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Pep Comics
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Comics
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Top-Notch Comics
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featuring an array of superheroes
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create The
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superhero before Captain America
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Jerry Siegel (1914-1996) and Joe Shuster (1914-1992)
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Jewish immigrants
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two 17-year-old kids from Cleveland, Ohio
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created
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Bob Kane (1915-1998) and Bill Finger (1914-1974)
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created the for DC Comics
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Jerry Robinson (1922-2011)
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Bob Kane's first assistant
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ghost artist on Batman
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co-creator of and the Joker
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Will (1917-2005)
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perhaps the greatest graphic in the history of comics
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created series The Spirit (1940-1952)
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the first Jewish superhero
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the father of the novel
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Joe (1913-2011)
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Editor in Chief at Timely Comics, later Marvel Comics
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co-created Captain American with Jack Kirby
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tall, deep voice, smoke cigars
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Jack was always drawing
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's Ranch
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teenagers who were cowboys
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Jack (1917--1994)
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grew up on the streets of New York City
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learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons
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Marvel Comics
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Captain America
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Fighting American
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The Fly
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The Man Hunter
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Sandman
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The News Boy Legion
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broke partnership with Joe Simon in
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moved on to Marvel Comics
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teamed up with Stan who created
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Fantastic Four
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Thor
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Man
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The Avengers
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The X-Men
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Silver Surfer
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could draw dramatic posing
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knew how to make anything look interesting
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Fawcett Comics
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1940s
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Captain Marvel
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said " !" to transform
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William Moulton Marston (1893-1947)
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with HG Peter, created Wonder Woman
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was also the inventor of the detector
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Otto Binder (1911-1974)
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wrote for the Marvel family
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created Super Girl and
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