The Golden Decade.

By 1940 the comic book, a medium created in the United States, had existed for exactly seven years. The first comic books were reprintings of newspaper comic strips, but they quickly turned to publishing original stories considerably longer than the strips. Historians have labeled the 1930s and 1940s, the first two decades of U.S. comic books, the golden age, and the comic book was at its height during the 1940s, which established the medium as part of American culture.

Something for Everyone.

The first few years were a period of experimenting with what readers, mostly children and adolescents but also adults, appreciated. In imitation of the popular pulp magazines, which influenced most comic-book writers and artists along with movies and radio shows, stories in different genres soon became the norm, including adventure, crime, fantasy and science fiction...