ABSTRACT
The Great Depression spurred a period of creativity and innovation that led to the creation of the comics medium. World War II pushed that era into the mainstream and a storytelling language was developed. Then came the postwar boom, and with it a renewed sense of American prosperity and greatness. Comics were ostracized, burned, regulated, and neutered to the point of outright blandness. From that emerged a sense of rebellion in other media, like music, when rock and roll was born, and in film, where movies like Rebel Without a Cause and others became rallying cries for the youth.
