How Marvel Made Millions Off the Atom Bomb - History Dose
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Date: 2022-09-15
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Raymond
I'm surprised to hear no mention of the Comics Code Authority, established in 1954, whose General Standards explicitly went after horror and crime comics and implicitly championed the superhero formula.
For instance:
- No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.
- Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
- Restraint in the use of the word crime in titles or subtitles shall be exercised.
- In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
- Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
- Policemen, judges, Government officials and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority.
- Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
And so on.
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I'm surprised to hear no mention of the Comics Code Authority, established in 1954, whose General Standards explicitly went after horror and crime comics and implicitly championed the superhero formula.
For instance:
- No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title.
- Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
- Restraint in the use of the word crime in titles or subtitles shall be exercised.
- In every instance good shall triumph over evil and the criminal punished for his misdeeds.
- Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates a desire for emulation.
- Policemen, judges, Government officials and respected institutions shall never be presented in such a way as to create disrespect for established authority.
- Crimes shall never be presented in such a way as to create sympathy for the criminal, to promote distrust of the forces of law and justice, or to inspire others with a desire to imitate criminals.
And so on.
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Yabi
Great video as always. You can tell how the government investing in science had a domino effect on the focus on media for years. In the 50s, there was a focus on westerns until the early 60s. Then the focus was on Sci-Fi with movies (Star Wars/2001, tv (Star Trek/ The Twilight Zone, books (Dune, and comics. That was until the mid-80s when action movies became more prominent.
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Great video as always. You can tell how the government investing in science had a domino effect on the focus on media for years. In the 50s, there was a focus on westerns until the early 60s. Then the focus was on Sci-Fi with movies (Star Wars/2001, tv (Star Trek/ The Twilight Zone, books (Dune, and comics. That was until the mid-80s when action movies became more prominent.
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Vivec
Slight correction: the part showing the documentary you watched about fusion is incorrect as you showed a diagram of fission, not fusion
Fusion is to combine elements together to create a new more powerful element and to abosrb and use the energy of the combination, fission is to split an element into different components to harvest the energy of the separation
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Slight correction: the part showing the documentary you watched about fusion is incorrect as you showed a diagram of fission, not fusion
Fusion is to combine elements together to create a new more powerful element and to abosrb and use the energy of the combination, fission is to split an element into different components to harvest the energy of the separation
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snowman
Oh humans, how have you perverted science as a sign of domination and exploitation
The illustration has returned to mythological abstractions such as peace, freedom
Humans say to pursue this ideals while stockpiling weapons of mass destruction
you killed god but put men on its place is an accurate analogy
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Oh humans, how have you perverted science as a sign of domination and exploitation
The illustration has returned to mythological abstractions such as peace, freedom
Humans say to pursue this ideals while stockpiling weapons of mass destruction
you killed god but put men on its place is an accurate analogy
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Trey
This is a great video, but its less of the cold war itself creating these media characters but rather the military industrial complex which essentially pushed these ideas and propaganda directly to children at the time (and frankly still today)
Not really the communists fault so much as our own guys.
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This is a great video, but its less of the cold war itself creating these media characters but rather the military industrial complex which essentially pushed these ideas and propaganda directly to children at the time (and frankly still today)
Not really the communists fault so much as our own guys.
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Doorus
Wasn't expecting a picture of my boi, Franco!
You discount the the jingoist propaganda of Americanism, but the mere fact that there was a Cold War belies your snark. Rosenbergs, anyone? No leaked atomic secrets by Communist agents in the governemnt (how jingoist, no Cold War.
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Wasn't expecting a picture of my boi, Franco!
You discount the the jingoist propaganda of Americanism, but the mere fact that there was a Cold War belies your snark. Rosenbergs, anyone? No leaked atomic secrets by Communist agents in the governemnt (how jingoist, no Cold War.
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Jolly
Remember that DC comics rewrote many of it's golden age heros into science-based characters first. Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman were given this treatment. In fact the success of the team up comic Justice League made Marvel create the Fantastic Four.
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Remember that DC comics rewrote many of it's golden age heros into science-based characters first. Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman were given this treatment. In fact the success of the team up comic Justice League made Marvel create the Fantastic Four.
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Esteban
Great videos man, if you need ideas the history of the Dominican Republic has not really been put into good English videos yet. I would love to see the story of Enriquillo or Juan Pablo duarte done by you folks. I'll join a Patreon if you do lol
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Great videos man, if you need ideas the history of the Dominican Republic has not really been put into good English videos yet. I would love to see the story of Enriquillo or Juan Pablo duarte done by you folks. I'll join a Patreon if you do lol
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The
Nuclear energy is the future and yet we have been convinced by the very same leftists that it's a danger while our enemies benefit from it. Communism never stopped fighting us; we just turned away and cowered from it at some point.
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Nuclear energy is the future and yet we have been convinced by the very same leftists that it's a danger while our enemies benefit from it. Communism never stopped fighting us; we just turned away and cowered from it at some point.
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Matt
Terrible thumbnail. It gives the impression that communists or that system of government promoted the development of comic book superheroes when the argument is that it was a response to these bad ideas.
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Terrible thumbnail. It gives the impression that communists or that system of government promoted the development of comic book superheroes when the argument is that it was a response to these bad ideas.
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FPS
Brilliant video. The fact what this in fact propaganda was so succesfull and transformed in to a worldwide pop culture which engulfed even countries of former USSR shows true power or USAs marketing.
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Brilliant video. The fact what this in fact propaganda was so succesfull and transformed in to a worldwide pop culture which engulfed even countries of former USSR shows true power or USAs marketing.
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aaron
back in, 'nine-11' - times my be a few week after; i heard a a woman In her 70's say; why They Call' Rambo (you know the heroes characters ) to get those guys! wow i say in silence.
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back in, 'nine-11' - times my be a few week after; i heard a a woman In her 70's say; why They Call' Rambo (you know the heroes characters ) to get those guys! wow i say in silence.
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Nate
You should do a video about how the Jewish-American identity and struggles molded comic books and superheros. It's not well known that almost ALL of these creators were Jewish
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You should do a video about how the Jewish-American identity and struggles molded comic books and superheros. It's not well known that almost ALL of these creators were Jewish
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Lang
So he says the earlier folk heroes used cunning
And the modern ones use science
Semantics
It's the same thing
The hero uses intelligence to beat evil
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So he says the earlier folk heroes used cunning
And the modern ones use science
Semantics
It's the same thing
The hero uses intelligence to beat evil
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John
Bruuh how you gonna twist Stanley's image and words like that, you do know Stanley himself said he did so, so that people can have a way to escape the cold war
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Bruuh how you gonna twist Stanley's image and words like that, you do know Stanley himself said he did so, so that people can have a way to escape the cold war
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John
Stan Lee has passed away, and the United States biggest threats are still communist or former communist countries. I had no idea he was anti-communist.
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Stan Lee has passed away, and the United States biggest threats are still communist or former communist countries. I had no idea he was anti-communist.
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Derek
Marvel Comics became the juggernaut it is today and redefined comics story-telling due to communism.
Joseph Stalin: You're welcome, comrade.
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Marvel Comics became the juggernaut it is today and redefined comics story-telling due to communism.
Joseph Stalin: You're welcome, comrade.
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Taylor
I bet this is also why the MCU was so successful. It reimagined the marvel heroes in contemporary conflicts (like iron man in the Middle East.
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I bet this is also why the MCU was so successful. It reimagined the marvel heroes in contemporary conflicts (like iron man in the Middle East.
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Raphael
Stan Lee was a hack, you should have looked into Jack Kirby's life experience. He was the creative mind behind most of Marvel not Lee.
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Stan Lee was a hack, you should have looked into Jack Kirby's life experience. He was the creative mind behind most of Marvel not Lee.
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JoeDiamond
I dont know why this video underperformed, its one of my favorite. Sucks to see you guys have to change the thumbnail so many times
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I dont know why this video underperformed, its one of my favorite. Sucks to see you guys have to change the thumbnail so many times
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