History MediaNotes / TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks

** ''All-American Comics'' (Franchise/GreenLantern)

** ''Feature Comics'' (Doll Man)

* Creator/ArchieComics

* Franchise/ArchieComics

Thus began The Golden Age Of Comic Books. Throughout the Golden Age, comics as a medium were not yet synonymous with superheroes as a genre -- horror stories, [[FunnyAnimal funny animals]], mystery-solving detectives, Westerns, romances, and more all remained popular throughout this period, in some cases more popular than superheroes. However, the gradual rise of the SuperHero defined the Golden Age in many ways. The SuperHero had ProtoSuperhero antecedents that went back beyond Superman -- indeed, Superman was in large part a product of these -- but they had never come together in this way before. The two-fisted pulp action hero merged with science fiction and fantasy, which merged with the crimefighting vigilante, which merged with ancient heroic sagas, to produce an explosion of new characters, individual men and women with strange abilities and the responsibility to use them against evil.

->"Without me, Super-Man Zero, there would be no you. Without me, there would be no superheroes at all. For I am the '''very beginning'''."
-->--[[spoiler:'''Ching Lung''', the very first super villain from [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a8/Detective_Comics_1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20130119231308 the cover]] of ''Detective Comics'' #1, ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'' #8]]

** ''Detective Comics'' (Franchise/{{Batman}}). The oldest continuously running American comic book series, though between 2011 and 2016 it was renumbered after a [[Comicbook/New52 linewide reboot]] before resuming the original numbering at #934.

*** Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}

** ''Comicbook/StardustTheSuperWizard''

*** [[Comicbook/FreedomFighters Phantom Lady, Human Bomb, Firebrand]]

** Stardust the Super Wizard

->--[[spoiler:'''Ching Lung''', the very first super villain from [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a8/Detective_Comics_1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20130119231308 the cover]] of ''Detective Comics'' #1, ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'' #8]]

-->"Without me, Super-Man Zero, there would be no you. Without me, there would be no superheroes at all. For I am the '''very beginning'''."
-->--[[spoiler:'''Ching Lung''', the very first super villain from [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a8/Detective_Comics_1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20130119231308 the cover]] of ''Detective Comics'' #1, ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'' #8]]

-->--[[spoiler:'''Ching Lung''', the very first super villain from [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a8/Detective_Comics_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130119231308 the cover]] of ''Detective Comics'' #1, ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'' #8]]

** ''ComicBook/{{The Wasp|LevGleason}}''

* ''ComicBook/PhantomFlyer''

** The Eye, a long running comic book featuring a powerful disembodied floating eyeball...