The Legends Behind the Comic Books (2008)

This new documentary film recognizes the comic book as a true art form as indigenous to American culture as jazz It presents comic books as reflectors of a changing America from the 1930s to today and it hails comic book superheroes as modernday mythological figures THE LEGENDS BEHIND THE COMIC BOOKS captures for posterity the living artists and writers from The Golden Age of Comic Books 19381951 and The Silver Age of Comic Books 19561973 Insightful comments are provided by the creative geniuses who were there at the beginning including