![]() ![]() It was at this moment that Neil Gaiman began to published his Sandman series. (According to his Wikipedia entry, Moore worships the Roman snake god Glycon as his ‘primary deity’.) ![]() Artists and writers began to write darker, more experimental storylines, following in the wake of the comic-book world’s Michelangelo, the Northampton-born author-cum-warlock Alan Moore. While the densely peopled, Technicolor doomsdays of the 1960s and ’70s provide the source code for today’s ubiquitous Marvel movies, it was the 1980s that gave mainstream comics the only arty cred they’ve ever managed to garner. Bad guys, who needed to be vanquished and replaced at rapid speeds, were always in short supply: highlights from this era include Hellcow, Doctor Bong and Asbestos Lady, the sworn enemy of the Human Torch. After the war, it was clear that world-saving was an American business and the density (and absurdity) of heroes and villains proliferated. ![]() ![]() Captain America - originally just called ‘Super American’, as in my opinion he still should be - arrived to beat up Axis baddies in 1940. In 1938, the first editions of Superman were published and the first Batman appeared a year later. The superhero era of comics began on the cusp of World War Two. ![]()
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