Preface: This list began some weeks ago as something I threw together for another thread. When I looked at my list, I found I'd made a lot of mistakes and it was inadequate. So I worked on it over the next many days until it became much bigger than I had first intended.

It was so big that I had to break it down into smaller sections, so I could post it here within the character limits for posts.


The Fall and Rise of the Supers

(timeline determined by on sale dates rather than cover dates)

Pre-Code Comics, 1950 - 1954

Overview: By 1950, most of the super-heroes had already suffered severe losses. Publishers had turned to other genres--western, funny animals, crime, celebrities, teen humour, good girl, war, jungle adventure, horror, romance and science fiction. The concept of the masked mystery man and costumed super-hero survived by adaptation to these other genres as horror mystery men or as western masked vigilantes or as caped funny animals or as science-heroes in space-suits with ray-guns.