Let’s start from the beginning –
a time I refer to as the Golden Age.
A comic is essentially a story told through a stream of illustrated vignettes. It’s reinforced with speech bubbles, onomatopoeia, and dialogue captions.
The origin of the first comic dates back to the early twentieth century. They were known as “comic strips” and began their debut in the Sunday newspapers. Due to their popularity, the editors decided to reprint them in magazine format. However, the existing material was insufficient, so they decided to hire low-cost creative staff to produce new material.
In June 1938, the nascent publishing house, Detective Comics, published the creation of two, European migrants: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Thanks to them, the first superhero in history entered our world. Was it a bird? A plane? No. It was Superman! As you know, this iconic character that hailed from another planet was raised by farmers and possessed superpowers that exceeded the capabilities of all humans. Millions of people began reading the comic. Its success naturally caught
the attention of radio and film producers, who first took it to radio as a series in 1940. Then it progressed to the big screen in 1948. Because the concept was such a hit, Max Fleischer produced 9 animated episodes in 1941 that were of exceptional quality for their time. This earned him a 1942 Oscar nomination for the Best Short Subject Cartoon, but he ended up losing to Walt Disney’s “Lend a Paw.”