Propaganda During The Cold War

Propaganda was booming during the mid 20th century influenced by the Cold War. One way that propaganda could get around was through comics, something that was widely used throughout the western countries. Conveying anti-Communist messages from characters or the over arching plot of the story. Many famous comic book companies took this towards their advantage throughout the tension of the war. Colliding art and literature influenced by the war into one for a way of media and reflecting the conflicts going on.
The Cold War influenced many comics and was thought as "consistently propagandistic" and even sparked a new genre of comics during this era called “Cold War Comics ” Winnie Winkle a famous Cold war comic shows the actual development of
On the other hand other Artists approached the serious anxieties and tensions of the dawning atomic age of the Cold War. As America mobilized against communism, the influence on young people was very common and this influence was available everywhere especially comic books which was available right in young people's hands. The Crime and horror comic book industry ex.Crime, found themselves under attack for corrupting youth. While the controversy of such influence escalated throughout the western countries comic books were burned,banned, or involved in a comic book code boycott. This concern led to US senate hearings and the publishers’ defensive created the Comics code authority of 1954. Superheros where the key to comic books survival during such controversy over them, due to the fact of the booming popularity of such characters on television. Many of the evil villains in Us comics were Soviets in many comics, especially in the feature Make Mine Freedom. They made this small feature leading american views to only support non-communist ways and that communism is the reason for the corruption in
Wright’s essay on the Flash comics, “I Can Pass Right Through Solid Matter!” suggests that the superheros were able to contain anything that threatened the American way of life. While also being free of restrictions, Bank robbers could be viewed as “the capitalist fear of communist system’s redistributing the wealth.” In the age of intercontinental missiles with only minutes between launch and death, who better to save the world than the strength of Superman or the speed of the Flash. “Unless we want the commies to beat us!” In the Comic “Mystery in Space” (april-May 1958) The setting is set in a post atomic war ravaged world of 2150, where the earth had been turned into a barren planet due to the radiation of the atomic bombs. One of the characters in this comic Commander Yardley creates an “operation Nullo” which overrides the process that let to the Atomic bomb. He states the benefits of not having such weapons that lead to millions of deaths. “With no atom bomb there is no Hiroshima, no Korea conflict, no Cold War! Men learned to live in peace and