Beginning of Comics

The '30's to '60's was the real start of mass-produced comics for all ages to take a hold of. Cheap newsprint paper, around sixty-four pages, and sold at almost any convenience store, these things were everywhere, even in the army. The attraction to these wordy comics with panels, in a way, 'seducted' the innocent into learning literacy in a way as well. Though, since comic book-making was started primarily in a male-industry, mostly every costumed character and arthur was made by men, for men (or boys). If there were relationships, it was always a man and a woman. If there was always a woman, that woman would relate to a man by being romantically involved with him, or an evil seductrise in a way. Even the romance comics made to appeal to women seemed to still have a rather male audience because of the woman-in-distress-and-needs-an-attractive-man-to-rescue-her with necessary male-gaze body shots and whatnot.

Another thing about standard costume superhero comics is that the reader must be a die-hard fan and read every issue from the start to the most recent that is on the market in order to understand the storyline and the plot. I'd be confused with picking up a random Superman comic off of a shelf and start reading it without my input of heavy background information for everything to make sense. I personally don't like the standard issues of these comics because it's more wordy than action to action pictures, but, I can understand being on a strict time schedule and a limited amount of pages to fit all of the drawn content on. I also noticed as well that the exchanged artists in some of the mass produced comics seem to be really lazy in some drawn panels, like drawing lazy-eyed faces that seem to be more comedic to look at than the actual story of the comic. I'd blame it on the lack of coffee, but simple errors like that in a comic really throw off my emersion. Guess the motto for back then was quantity over quality.