Vintage Comics - Old But Good

For many of us, all we know about comic books is that we like them and vintage comics are just old ones. No matter how old we get, there is still that strange appeal to pick one up at the store and look at it. I have noticed that the older I get the more I appreciate things. One of them is vintage comics.

I found out that the first comic was published over 100 years ago in 1895. It was Hogan's Alley. The name comic book was at first a reference from a comic strip in 1897. This was when the first use of bubble speech allowed the characters to have a voice Manga. The book was "The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats". The character Yellow Kid is credited with the term and it has stuck ever since.

Amongst collectors, I am not one just a novice admirer, there are five classifications of the comic book by era. For a comic book to be considered a Platinum comic book it must have been published between the years of 1897 and 1937. The Golden Age of comics are the ones published between 1938 and 1955. The Silver Age of comics were published between 1956 and 1969. Then came the Bronze Age of comics which fell between the years of 1970 and 1979. The modern era of comics started in 1980 and is still going today.

Comics first appeared in newspapers and for years this was the only way they were publicized. Mutt and Jeff was one of the first comic strips that were formed into a little book. These were sold at the newsstands for 10 cents. The first super hero was the Phantom. He made is ride into history in 1936.