Readers in the 1940s and 1950sĪt the beginning of the 1940s, Superman and other superpowered adventurers dominated the industry. Pulp heroes like Doc Savage and the Shadow would appear in the comics themselves and influence the creation of characters like Superman (1938) and Batman (1939). As the publishers of pulp magazines saw the success of comic books, many of them expanded in that direction. Nevertheless, they reached a substantial audience interested in detective, science fiction, and adventure stories.
Thanks to the cheapness of the paper on which they were published, their relative lack of literary value, and the frequently lurid cover illustrations, critics disparaged the pulps.
The pulps were inexpensive periodicals that featured short genre fiction. With its mystery stories, it attracted a young adult audience familiar with the genre from movies, radio serials, and pulp magazines.
This audience would shift slightly with the publication of Detective Comics #1 (dated March 1937). Mickey Mouse and other famous characters also had popular comic books during the mid-1930s. This young audience enjoyed titles like Famous Funnies that reprinted funny, familiar newspaper comic strips. Children were the first readers of comic books.
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