New Fun Comics (later More Fun Comics) #1 (National Allied Publications, which would later become DC) was published in 1935 and was the first comic that contained all new material. Even with its high cost, the first issue still sold over 180 thousand copies. Keep in mind the average persons’ take-home pay was less than $25/week and in the depression a dime could buy a meal. It was followed by Famous Funnies #1 in 1934 which was a large size format with 68 pages and sold for 10 cents each. Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics was given away or sold (we don’t actually know) at Woolworth’s department store.
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It was the first publication to resemble what we know today as a comic book, by including a cover and full color interior pages. In 1933 Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics (Eastern Color Printing) was released. There are several key events and characters from the 30’s that shaped the formation of modern comics. This was when the seed of everything we know in comics today were first planted. The 1930’s was the start of the Golden Age of comics. The biggest on that list of survivors are Tintin by Herge, Buck Rogers, Popeye and Tarzan none of whom draw the readers like they did in their heyday. Gasoline Alley was a hugely popular strip in its day and while it is not the monster hit it once was, it can still be found in the newspaper comics section today. There were literally hundreds of characters and strips from the start of the 20th century’s first two decades but only a handful ever made the jump into comic books and fewer still are known to any degree today. It is sad to look at characters from this period and see how few have survived to modern days. Most comic characters from the 20’s were created for newspaper strips rather than for stand-alone books. While The Funnies was the first collection and definitely became a guide for later comics, it bares about as much resemblance to the modern comic book as the first steam powered vehicles from the 18th century do to modern day cars. Before 1929, almost all comics were part of magazines, newspapers or supplements and were not sold separately. The funnies was the first collection of comics material but it was more like a color newspaper supplement, as it had no cover, rather than the comic book format familiar today. 1920’sĬomics material had been in existence before the turn of the century but it was not until 1929 when The Funnies #1 (Dell) was published.
With that in mind, this article will cover the important events of the times as well as the unrecognized events that have had significant long-term effects. With the current dilution of the audience and the saturation of the marketplace by pop culture distractions, most events that shaped the medium would not have the same effect if they had been introduced today. One element is clear in all these events, the importance lies in not only what occurred but when they occurred. Some events listed below are significant for their impact at the time but also for what they continue to do today however, some of what I will talk about was important once but has faded in time but still hold sway over the industry today. While the foundations of today’s industry started in the 1920’s, the events of today are shaping the industry of tomorrow.
New events that shape the comics industry are always happening.
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