• Costume super heroes flooded comic books
• World war II
• Captain America first issue sold out
• Timely comics was transformed to marvel in 1939
• • Superman became a big hit so Bob Kane and Bill Finger create The Batman in 1941.
• First sidekick was introduced (robin) everyone copied this idea
• Captain marvel & superman had a 12 year on going battle
• Wonder woman was introduced
• She appeared as one of the first main female characters appearing in comic books, she becomes a model of how a superhero woman should look.
• Cold war occurred
• Captain America was created in 1941. Captain America fought America's biggest enemies at the time. This included Adolf Hitler, through World War II.
• Comics
were a cheap source of entertainment to stressed people and soldiers during World War II.
• Experts believed comic books were bad and they would alter teenage behaviour