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Chapter I
Reading Academic Texts
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 The Golden Age of Comics
(1) The period from the late 1930s to the middle 1940s is known as
the golden age of comic books. The modern comic book came in the early
1930s in the United States as a giveaway premium to promote the sale of the
whole range of household products such as cereal and cleanser. The comic
books, which are printed in bright colours to attract the attentions of potential
customers, proved so popular that some publishers decided to produce comic
books that would come out on a monthly basis and would sell for a dime
each. Though comic strips had been reproduced in publications prior to this
time, the Famous Funnies comic book, which was started in 1934, marked
the first occasion that a serialized book of comics was attempted.

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(2) Early comic books reprinted already existing comic strips and
comics based on known characters, however, publishers soon began
introducing original characters developed specially for comic books.
Superman was introduced in Action Comics in 1938, and Batman was

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introduced a year later. The tremendous success of these superhero comic
books led to the development of numerous comic books on a variety of topics,
though superhero comic book predominated. Astonishingly, by 1945,
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approximately 160 different comic books were being published in the United
States each month, and 90 percent of US children were said to read comic
books on a regular basis.
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