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Comic Book Timeline
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History of comic books & comic strips
1941
Captain America
Captain America first appeared in Timely Comics' Captain America Comics #1 in the months before World War II. He represent America with the colours, stripes and stars. The main target audience was young adults and older. It represented the war aswell as one of the antagonists were based off of a Nazi soldier.
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were two of the most influential creators in the comic book industry. They are responsible for some of the most popular and well-known comic book titles of all time.
1941
In 1940, writer Joe Simon conceived the idea for Captain America and made a sketch of the character in costume. "I wrote the name 'Super American' at the bottom of the page," Simon said in his autobiography, and then decided: No, it didn't work. There were too many Supers around. "Captain America" had a good sound to it. There weren't a lot of captains in comics. It was as easy as that
One of the characters in Captain America, represented a Nazi soldier, during these times America was at war with Germany. Captian America resemnbled America, with the colours, satrs and stripes of the American flag.
1896
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid was based off of an Irish immagrant in New York, immigrants were heavily looked down upon during these times and this comic was made to amuse the new yorkers and mock immigrants
American comic strip artist Mickey Dugan created the character, known as The Yellow Kid, who ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzers New York World and afterwards in William Randolph Hearsts New York Journal and Richard F. created the image
1896
The clothing that the yellow kid wears and his bald head represents the poor life he lives. The writing on his clothing represents that he is uneducated and cannot speak english well. The baled head is to represent when immigrants would shave their head to get rid of lice.
pre-1800s
Heiroglyphs are the oldest thing that resembles comic books, they weree the first things human had seen as far as pictures, images and sculptures which has now led to comic books and comic strips