Golden Age of DC Comics: 1935-1956 by Paul Levitz, Art design, Josh Baker, Taschen, Los Angeles, CA, DC Comics, 2013.
This is an historical picture book. How can you tell the story of comics without lots of pictures. This is an area I have not really explored, except when a movie comes out. Who knew that DC stands for detective comics, which is where the company started. They then expanded into action comics, and of course really picked up their steam with Superman. Superman was followed by Batman and then Robin. However there are also Wonder Woman, Flash and Marvel Man. There are many different illustrators and stories are told in different ways. This book covers the time of World War II, which had a profound effect on the comics as some dealt with the war head on. Other comics dealt with the Japanese, and sometimes the German in a very negative way. Marvel Man was also taking after them.
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