pouvez-vous m’aider à répondre à ces questions :
1. When did comics books appeared for the first time ?
2. Who was the first superhero featured in the comics ?
3. When did Captain America appear ?
4. What was he the face of ?
5. What did many covers show ?
6. What did it create ?
7. What did American citizens realize ?
8. In the war timeline, when was the 1941 issue published ?
9. How did the public opinion react ? Why ?
10. But what happened on December 7th 1941 ?
11. What did that change ?
12. What impact did it have on the comics’ sales ?
13. What about the US army ?
14. What impact did comics have on the soldiers ?
15. What about children ?
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Comic books arrived in the late 1930s. In June 1938, Action Comic Number 1 exposed Superman to the
world.
In March 1941, Captain America became the face of World War II comic propaganda.
large support of the war effort and Captain America comics.
Fighting for the United States at this time was viewed as the greatest heroic act. The creation of Captain
that as regular citizens, like Steve Rogers, they also could contribute to the war effort, by buying war bonds. The 1941 issue was published nine months before the United States entered the war, but we see captain
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When the war began, 15 million comic books were being published every month. Two years later 25 million copies were sold monthly. And the largest single customer in the United States was the United States Army. Throughout the war, comic book superheroes were involved in doing things to help the war effort. The description of the character’s actions were simplistic and good always triumphed over evil.
war. They were cheap, easy to carry and to read. It was part entertainment, part instruction manual, and part psychologist for the soldier.
While the comic books displayed propaganda, it was also commercialism. Comic books were big money effort. Children used the comic book to keep up to date with what was happening through most of the war.
*War bonds were a way for a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war without raising taxes.
Many covers of Captain America comics show
the superhero fighting Nazi soldiers and Hitler.
This created
America conveyed the idea that all citizens were capable of supporting soldiers abroad.
Citizens realized
America punching Hitler in the face.
At first, because of America’s isolationism, the 2 Jewish writers, Joe
Simon and Jack Kirby, received some hate mail for this cover.
When the USA entered the war on 7th
December 1941, after Pearl Harbor,
Captain America’s views about evil became the norm
Comics educated a country at war. The books also helped
soldiers to think of something different than the
and became part of the war itself. And
it showed what children and young men could do to help the

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