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Electricmastro

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    Not going with favorites, but considering the start of comic books, the best answer would probably be the humor genre. In particular, the humor comic that was the most prominent at the time was perhaps Mutt & Jeff, which was there not only for Funnies on Parade and Famous Funnies, but also for DC, who also published them quite frequently.
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    Yep, they don't call it the baby boomer generation for nothing. It was only really DC, Fawcett, and Quality who still seemed committed to the superhero genre at this point, with the Superman franchise having actually expanded in 1949 when Superboy started his self-titled comic. I imagine he got even more popular by the time the Adventures of Superman TV show premiered in 1952.
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    So what would you guys say are your favorite features from Planet Comics? Its features included: The Lost World Star Pirate Auro Lord of Jupiter Space Rangers Flint Baker Mysta of the Moon Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron Futura Norge Benson The Red Comet Reef Ryan Mars, God of War
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    I think that Bosko could still reasonably be seen as being part of the Looney Tunes family despite not being featured as often anymore.
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    Science fiction, which I feel tends to encourage quite a bit of creativity and be reflective of the era such ideas were created in.
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    And if we're talking about between the end of World War II and the end of 1949, then August 1949 seems the most busy. Whereas December 1942 had at least 105 books, August 1949 more than doubled that by having at least 213 books.
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    Don Rico (Weird Comics #5):
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    Comic books with an April, 1937 cover date, coming before May, 1937's Detective Comics #3.
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    During World War II itself, it could have been December 1942, which is when all these books are said to have been on sale.
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    How the Bart Hill Daredevil surely influenced the Matt Murdock one. By Michael T. Gilbert from The Daredevil Chronicles, Fantaco Enterprises, 1982.
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    Marvel Mystery Comics #52:
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    Also worth noting is that Feature Funnies #10 (July, 1938) mentioned concentration camps, which is the earliest comic book I’ve seen do so.
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    And arguably not quite superheroes, but there seemed to be more women on that team than men as well, as War Nurse led her own team of ladies called the Girl Commandos, which formed in the same issue.
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    Yeah, many companies had gone defunct around 1955, yet Centaur went defunct in 1942. I guess Amazing-Man, the Arrow, Fantom of the Fair, and the others wasn’t enough.
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    Speed Comics #23 (October 1942, Harvey Comics) had at least four superheroes team-up, which I think was the first time a full-length superhero team-up this big had happened. I don’t think the Justice Society had even done something like this by that point. Art by Arturo Cazeneuve.
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    Surprisingly, Sherlock Holmes hasn’t had many comic strips and comic books focusing on him. The earliest self-titled Sherlock Holmes comic book I can find is by Charlton.
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    Agreed. Despite the writing being less in-depth compared to modern comics, I feel better reading through them if only because they’re not as cynical as modern comics tend to embrace more. Even when fighting against the Axis powers, I still have the feeling that the world the Golden Age comics portray is still very much capable of becoming better after the fighting is over.
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    Yeah, I think that by 1950, it was only really DC (Superman), Fawcett (Captain Marvel), and Quality (Plastic Man), who were still fully committed to regularly publishing superheroes, though even then, they had all taken an arguably more comedic direction to fit in better with the general popularity of comedy comics at the time, among other popular genres.
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    There was Abdul the Arab, but I suppose it depends on whether or not one counts a Middle Eastern character as black as opposed to an African character.
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    Amazing-Man Comics #11.
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    Pep Comics #4 (May, 1940): The Comet shoots at what he thinks is a club, which turns out to be dynamite.
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    L.B. Cole’s bold line usage on his cartoon covers.
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    The suggestion that Fantomah is the first comic book superheroine, when it may more likely be the Magician from Mars.
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    Despite being one of the earliest artists in DC’s history, Munson Paddock is almost never mentioned, and is arguably more obscure than his sci-fi artist contemporaries Fletcher Hanks and Basil Wolverton. The Mars Mason stories he did for Speed Comics are probably the biggest highlight of his comic book career (Speed Comics #9-11, 1940):
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    Notably, in first year of publication, Plastic Man smoked marijuana in Police Comics #5 (December, 1941).