Archive for the ‘The World in a Golden Age’ Category
Planet Comics #10: The Red Comet
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: December 20, 2010
Hello, Readers! Jonny here. In my many readings and explorings of the Information Super Highway (that’s the Internet to you “Web2.0” Kiddies) I discovered a Golden Age gem from January 1941 called “The Red Comet” that was published in Fiction House’s Planet Comics. Planet Comics started in January of 1940 as a monthly magazine collecting, [...]
Superman v. The Great Depression
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: August 8, 2010
“Fans come to me asking how this works or that works, and I say, ‘It’s a comic book. It’s not real.’ We already have a real world, why do you want fiction to be like that too?” – Grant Morrison, 2010 Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Golden Age comics. I know there aren’t [...]
The World in a Golden Age: 1941 at Home, Abroad, and in Comics
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: November 12, 2009
“We view the world through our own eyes.” What an obvious statement, and yet not always so intuitive. We love comics, but rarely stop to think of the social and political canvass our beloved characters were painted against. 1941 may have been the most terrifying and uncertain year the Western World has ever seen. This [...]
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