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in the section "A Brief History of Comic".
When you finish, there is another comic superhero at the end of this text.
Listen to him and choose the correct answer to continue the webquest.
Beginning in the early part of the 20th century comic strips appear in newspapers’ Sunday supplements. The Yellow Kid by Richard Felton Outcault is the first comic strip. The Yellow Kid cartoons are small,and black and white at the beginning. But when they become famous, they are published in colour. There are sentences written on his yellow clothes.After that, during the 1930's comic strips start to be very popular, with characters such as Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy or Popeye. Popeye comics and animated cartoons are still very popular today.
In 1934, the Flash Gordon comic strip appear in newspapers, and also in a radio programme. It is about the adventures of Flash Gordon, a hero who travels across the universe and fights agains evil aliens.
Mickey Mouse Magazine appears a year later, and in 1937, Detective Comics, a comic magazine, becomes really popular, with their stories about crime and suspense.
But the Golden Age of comics starts in 1939, with Jerry Siegel's Superman. Superman doesn't come from the Earth. He comes from a planet called Kripton and has superpowers. He is very strong, and he can fly. It is so successful that more superheroes comics are created: Bob Kane creates a superhero without any powers, Bat-Man, who in his normal life is a multimillionaire.
Other comic superheroes are: Captain America and Wonder Woman, who are American patriotic superheroes: their costumes have the colours and symbols of the United States flag.
Green Lantern and The Daredevil are also famous superheroes. Green Lantern has got a powerful ring which gives powers such as invisibility, high speed, telepathy... Daredevil's powers come from radiation. He becomes blind, but his other senses become better than the rest of human being's ones.
By 1962, Stan Lee introduces his character Spider-man. Spiderman is about a boy who is bitten by a radioactive spider. He gets superpowers such as climbing buildings and throwing spider webs. Iron Man, the X-Men, The Amazing Hulk, The Fantastic Four and others also appear during these years. The company Marvel publishes many of these heroes.
In the 1980s more realistic superheroes such as The Watchmen, and characters such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles begin to appear. Superheroes and their colleagues begin to die in comics. Now they are powerful, but they are not almighty.
Nowadays, Japanese manga comics are also very popular, and Hollywood makes many films about superheroes.
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