For production reasons that aren’t important here, comics were reduced by 16 pages at time. Comic books, which were primarily aimed at children, had legitimate fears about driving away readers with price increases, so they chose to hold their price steady and reduce their content. When those magazines encountered inflation and paper shortages over the years, their natural response was to raise their price. When comics first appeared in the 1930s, they were 96 pages long and sold for $0.10, which was standard for most magazines at the time. Dell felt the pride that comes before the fall. Dell thought itself invincible, that it could do no wrong. When other publishers lost sales and went out of business, Dell thrived.
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When it refused the Comics Code Authority during the height of the anti-comics crusade, distributors and retailers looked the other way and sold them anyway.
Even with Flash, Green Lantern, and the Justice League of America rising in popularity, the Silver Age might’ve been only a footnote if the reigning giant hadn’t destroyed itself.ĭell Comics had been publishing “Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories” for decades.
Historians will tell you the Silver Age of Superheroes began in March 1956, but that’s only evident with hindsight – it took years for the movement to build momentum and it had several false starts. It was a time of great transition for the comics industry.
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