Cái gọi là "Golden Age" của truyện tranh đã chính thức bắt đầu vào năm 1938. Trong khi tìm kiếm một tính năng dẫn đến khởi động một tiêu đề mới, Gaines và biên tập viên của ông giải quyết trên một dải đã được tạo ra năm năm trước đó và không thành công được cung cấp như một dải tờ báo của hai thiếu niên từ Cleveland | The so-called Golden Age of comics officially began in 1938. While looking for a lead feature to launch another new title Gaines and his editors settled on a strip that had been created five years earlier and unsuccessfully offered as a newspaper strip by two teenagers from Cleveland Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster. The character could lift cars leap over buildings and bounce bullets off his chest. The new magazine was named Action Comics. The character was called Superman Daniels 32 . Superman proved to be an overnight success. As quickly as they could other publishers--and DC itself as Gaines company had come to be called--sought to make economic lightning strike again and again. Costumed heroes arrived by the busload feeding the escapist public with fantastic adventures Savage 171 . Not long before the second World War impelled by world affairs and the public mood the comic book industry created a number of patriotic heroes Captain America Fighting Yank The Americommando and even Uncle Sam who began appearing in National Comics in July of 1940. This signaled the end of comic book escapism. As war became part of everyday life comics became a vehicle for propaganda. Military Comics was launched several months before the United States entered World War II advertising Stories of the Army and Navy. The leading hero was Blackhawk who we learned in the first issue was a Polish aviator whose family had been killed by Nazis. He waged aerial guerrilla warfare against Nazi Germany in his distinctive 4 Blackhawk plane--which had a striking resemblance to a Grumman skyrocket Goulart 1811 . Comic books became a part of the Allied propaganda machine emphasizing the need for a maximum war effort by portraying the enemy as a vast inhuman evil. All variety of heroes including Superman and Batman were portrayed on covers promoting war bonds and punching out the JapaNazis. Additionally hundreds of thousands of comics were shipped to Allied troops around the world Savage 10 . The .
