Secondary Superheroes Of Golden Age Comics

Cat-Man, The Shield, The Black Terror and The Black Cat? Those names don’t sound familiar?

To most people they aren’t, but to die-hard Golden Age comic book fans they are just a small sampling of superheroes from the Golden Age of comic books

From the beginning to the end of the Golden Age (the late 1930s to the mid-1950s) there was a huge assemblage of lesser known superheroes.

Most were at the height of their popularity during the World War II years.

But many of them survived into the Silver, Bronze and Modern Ages of comic books.

Superheroes like The Green Hornet, The Blue Beetle and several more were either re-introduced in their original form or updated with new origins for modern times.

In author Lou Mougin’s book: Secondary Superheroes Of Golden Age Comics, published by McFarland,& Company, Inc., Publishers, superheroes from the Golden Age of comics are given their rightful recognition.

While it’s true many have not survived to modern times that does not mean they were unimportant.

Times change, comic book readers’ tastes shift and some of the superheroes were best suited for another time.

In the book every comic book publisher that existed during the Golden Age is spotlighted along with its group of superheroes.

Each hero is examined from their origin, their powers and creators along with their individual contributions to the superhero genre of the Golden Age.

To really understand how superheroes came about it’s important to know their history.

This book delves into the little known past of the secondary heroes complemented by art and more.

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