Action and adventure
Action and adventure |
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Page 19 of 42  Cover, Detective Comics (DC Comics, 1340). Art: Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson. Here, Robin makes his first appearance. Superman and Batman quickly dominated the American market, selling millions every month, and established National Periodicals - later renamed DC Comics - as the premier publisher.'6 They founded complementary superhero paradigms - supernatural versus super-athlete, strength versus wit and day versus night - which would later be copied by a seemingly endless array of imitators through the 1940s. Publishers realized that big money could be made, but were also aware that the war could be capitalized upon to advantage: after all, real-life super-villains like Hitler and Tojo were ideal foes for the superheroes. Thus, most of the new titles were feeble copyists of Superman and Batman, infused with a wartime spirit, but devoting less thought to the characters than to how to get from one fight scene to another. There were, however, one or two notable additions to the super-roster.  Detail from Detective Comics (DC Comics, 1350). Art: Anon. |