Google's News Timeline

[seank]

Want to find out what they were saying about comic books back in 1945 or 1954? Check out Google's News Timeline and enter a year and "comic books."

 

I imagine we may find some great information and some interesting pictures to post. I did a quick search using 1945 and found an article claiming comics were fascist. Shades of Werthams to come!

[mikephoen]

Very cool. I've only looked a bit, but here is an excerpt from a Feb 1940 Time article.

 

Scarcely more than a year ago Superman was just a comic-strip nobody from an obscure planet called Krypton. Now, as almost every kid in the U. S. (and many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper.

 

Almost as phenomenal as his comic-strip career is Superman's vogue with U. S. youth. He appears in 77 U. S. dailies, 36 Sunday papers. With Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000. Superman Quarterly is gobbled up at the rate of 1,300,000 copies an edition.