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Part Three
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One of these publishers, National Periodicals chimed in with their first effort in February 1935. This title, New Fun Comics was just as it's name intimated - and entirely new content book, devoid of reprints and with original characters that appeared from one issue to the next. It was the first example of the modern day comic book. |
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Often crudely drawn and badly written, the novelty of comic books did not tail off and more books were printed each month by a growing list of publishers. As a new medium, there had really been no pre-set boundaries for the style or story lines so there was constant experimentation, new genres were played with, and finally ideas began to gel for the comics. In 1938 Harry Donenfeld, the publisher of National Periodicals was looking for a new headline feature for his soon to be published Action Comics. Again Max Gaines was to be involved in another trend setting innovation. |
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Editors scoffed at the idea of the central character, a superhuman being from another planet who could leap tall buildings, go faster than a speeding bullet and generally do things that no editor could possibly believe would sell newspapers. Could they have been so shortsighted? But Donenfeld was in the business of new ideas and when the two boys entered his office, he knew he had a gold mine, and it was called "Superman"... |
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