The Great Comic Book Heroes

Abstract

This chapter presents an excerpt from Jules Feiffer’s pioneering study The Great Comic Book Heroes (1965), which offers a fledgling cartoonist’s account of the early days of the comic book industry. Like Feiffer many of the early comic book creators, including Siegel and Shuster, were teens or young adults when they joined the burgeoning industry in the 1930s and 1940s. The account brings to life the youthful enthusiasm of this first generation of comic book artists and the excitement of working in a new art form that was developing its own visual language and techniques.

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