My book, Understanding Superhero Comic Books available at https://a.co/d/8ZSTMh8 & https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/understanding-superhero-comic-books/.

Key creators pioneered the narrative scope of the superhero comic book, Jerry Siegel, Julius Schwartz, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Jim Starlin, John Byrne, Frank Miller, and Alan Moore. After Siegel and Shuster created the first superhero, Superman from various proto-superhero elements, each successive creator strove to make their successive superheroes more relatable and realistic while navigating economic and political pitfalls. Eventually, the genre reached a plateau when the superheroes were so real that they weren't heroic anymore, prompting the industry to constantly focus on modernizing comic books or portraying their stories in film and television to stay fresh for new audiences. This among many other topics is carefully laid out in my book with over 1200 citations, "Understanding Superhero Comic Books" available to order at McFarlandBooks.com.

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#CBHDocuseries-66: Understanding Superhero Comic Books
📜 Video Highlights
00:00 Understanding Superhero Comic Books
00:27 Origin of Superhero genre
01:47 Crime and Horror | Fredric Wertham, Estes Kefauver
03:05 Comics Code
03:58 Advancement in Superhero genre | Julius Schwartz
05:42 Birth of Marvel Universe | Stan Lee
07:45 Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby | Space Gods
08:50 Social realism to comic books | Julius Schwartz
09:35 Death factor to the Superhero genre
10:10 John Byrne modernized storytelling
10:59 Deconstructing a Superhero | Frank Miller, Alan Moore
12:22 Conclusion

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