The Classic Era of AMERICAN COMICS

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The world has never seen the likes of the American comic book. In its hey-day the top 500 comics sold over 60 million copies a month between them. Comics rank alongside jazz and the movies as America's great contribution to twentieth-century popular culture. The best of the comics attracted superb artists who could create characters and tell stories as memorable as those in any movie or popular novel. There were super heroes with bulging biceps and super heroines with bulging bosoms, funny men and funny animals, war comics, comics that retold the classics and comics that reveled in crime, horror, the super-natural and sex - eventually attracting the censorious eye of the social reformers.