Listen to a Podcast About Comic Books

Explore the art and storytelling of sequential art — from the Golden Age of Superman to graphic novels like Watchmen and Maus, and the medium's influence on global pop culture.

Superman's debut in Action Comics #1 (June 1938) launched the superhero genre and the Golden Age of comics; an original copy in near-mint condition sold for $6 million in 2024, making it the most valuable comic book in the world. Art Spiegelman's "Maus" (1991) became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, depicting the Holocaust with Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, proving that the medium could tackle the most serious subjects with literary depth. The Comics Code Authority, established in 1954 after psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's book "Seduction of the Innocent" blamed comics for juvenile delinquency, imposed strict content restrictions for decades until Marvel broke away in 2001, and the CCA was formally disbanded in 2011.

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