Characters created by Jack Kirby

each medium must have differing content. Each media piece, whether it be a film, comic book, video, etc; acts as a standalone story in a wider universe. This form of storytelling adds a lot of richness and detail to the story’s universe as we get character backstories and secondary plot lines. With this, the audience becomes actively involved as they become stakeholders in their transmedia experience in which they can be motivated to engage with other fans, seek out other parts of the story, and contribute

1938 saw the first appearance of Batman. More of a mystery comic than a superhero comic book, Batman was inherently different from the pure and clean Superman. He was a gritty and depressing character that has been able to remain in print even to this day. Rather than using superpowers, Batman uses detective abilities that allowed him to solve cases and find perpetrators. (“The History of Comic Books.” TheComicBooks.com.) But not even Batman, Superman, or even Captain Marvel could brace themselves

With Hate and Success: How the Jews Created the Comic Book Industry The year is 1933. Adolf Hitler is elected as Chancellor of Germany, the U.S. struggles through the Great Depression, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected as the U.S. President, and almost assassinated. But that’s not what this is about, that’s the boring stuff. This is about the revolutionary idea that changed American pop culture forever. 1933 was the birth of the American comic book. The birth that ended up becoming a success

several different superheroes have been created. Some were written for fun while others had a precise motive. Captain America is a prime example of being created for a specific reason. Often, people do not realize that the classic Captain America was conceived out of the horrors of World War II, which began in the late 1930s. Captain America’s influence on America through the past seventy-five years is one that amazes most people. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon created Captain America on March 1, 1941, right

continued this dehumanization into the 20th century, and even the instances of racial injustice seen on the news today, Black Americans have been systemically oppressed in America. It is for this reason that the character of the Black Panther, created by comic book creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is an influential and iconic one. Marvel’s Black Panther serves as an antithesis to the prevailing concept of unsophisticated Blacks, and more importantly in context to the realm of comic books, a mainstream

Four #1 created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and many others. Timely’s first publication in 1939 was Marvel Comics #1 and included the first appearance of the Human Torch and Namor. All comic books, no matter

the myriad of cultural icons he’s created throughout the years. Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, Thor, the X-Men, as well as so many others are all the creations of Stan Lee. Lee created so many realistic characters that combined typical human emotions and traits with their super powers. Lee’s personal writing style, attention to detail, and his revolutionary ideas changed the idea of the superhero forever; he created ideals and themes that have been adapted

of movie genres nowadays, and nerds everywhere fangirl when they have seen it. Everything has a beginning, and sure enough, superheroes had one too. Stan Lee is the creator of many fantastic superheroes that we know and love today. He created the famous characters like the Fantastic Four, Spider-man and many more. Stan Lee’s full name is Stanley Martin Lieber. He was born on December 28, 1922, in New York City. He married to Joan Boocock in 1947 and had one daughter. Stan Lee began his comic book

he very first modern comic book made, was known as the "Yellow Kid," and its arrival in 1897, generated the "Platinum age" of comics. It was published by G. W. Dillingham Company, and was part of a series that Dilingham did on American authors. This became the staple for future comic books to come, and even coined the name "Comic Book" on the back of the cover. But even before the "Yellow Kid", comic books had existed in what has been coined the "Victorian age", which started in 1837 with the comic

The new Black Panther series in 1977 written by Jack Kirby reflected these developments. His narrative pushed race issues and T’Challa’s black identity into the background. Without even a mention of McGregor’s previous political storylines, the Black Panther suddenly began fighting new mystical opponents. In the first issue of the new series, for example, the Black Panther fought with aliens over a brass frog with magical powers. The shift in content was painfully obvious. Additionally, racial commentary