Week 4 - The Comic Book

For this week I have read Plastic Man and cannot help but laugh at the name and goofiness of the story. Comic books of this time were cheap and entertaining thin books for children in an age without other significantly available media. In the early age of comic book they all had a very similar style and were an obvious deviation from strips. They are able to more efficiently utilize space and some comic books like Captain America took on a political agenda. Captain America was birthed from a time of political tribulation that resulted in its, and many other heroes, creation. This in itself is a form of propaganda showing that comics can serve more than one purpose. They teach lessons, influence us, and entertain us. In Captain America we even blatantly see him and his side kick Bucky beating up Nazis and on the cover of the first issue he punches Hitler in the face. The Golden age of comics is where comic books specifically make a huge turn-out and also where we see the large influx of superheroes. Now a days superheroes are often an annoyance to many people as they swamp the movie industry but back then they were widely beloved. Despite many people’s dismay of their constant appearances they are still widely read and loved all around the world since its beginning in America.