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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 26, 2017 21:26:10 GMT -5
Daredevil didn't really need to raise a finger beyond going on television (which is treated as a novelty here since the comic is from 1947) Funny you mention this. The first issue of Boy Comics that I read, #36, came out a month later, and there's also a television in that story that is treated like a novelty. Crimebuster invites a friend over to Loover's to watch the heavyweight championship boxing match on the TV, and the kid is in awe, as he's never had a chance to watch TV before.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 26, 2017 23:04:18 GMT -5
Daredevil didn't really need to raise a finger beyond going on television (which is treated as a novelty here since the comic is from 1947) Funny you mention this. The first issue of Boy Comics that I read, #36, came out a month later, and there's also a television in that story that is treated like a novelty. Crimebuster invites a friend over to Loover's to watch the heavyweight championship boxing match on the TV, and the kid is in awe, as he's never had a chance to watch TV before. I didn't know anyone had TVs in 1947, actually. I'd always assumed they first came into wide use in the 1950s.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jul 26, 2017 23:08:16 GMT -5
Daredevil didn't really need to raise a finger beyond going on television (which is treated as a novelty here since the comic is from 1947) Funny you mention this. The first issue of Boy Comics that I read, #36, came out a month later, and there's also a television in that story that is treated like a novelty. Crimebuster invites a friend over to Loover's to watch the heavyweight championship boxing match on the TV, and the kid is in awe, as he's never had a chance to watch TV before. It's interesting how much of a time capsule feel these titles possess. While reading DC comics from the same period provides me with an idea of what the fantasy life of kids were at that time, Lev Gleason seems to provide more of an insight into their real world. Of course, as Shaxper indicates, the next issue of Daredevil or Crimebuster I read could be completely off the wall (actually, if I recall correctly, Daredevil's last appearance in his title dealt with The Wise Guys going into outer space). I guess you can't really tell.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 26, 2017 23:11:27 GMT -5
Funny you mention this. The first issue of Boy Comics that I read, #36, came out a month later, and there's also a television in that story that is treated like a novelty. Crimebuster invites a friend over to Loover's to watch the heavyweight championship boxing match on the TV, and the kid is in awe, as he's never had a chance to watch TV before. I didn't know anyone had TVs in 1947, actually. I'd always assumed they first came into wide use in the 1950s. 1948 is usually viewed as the start of the "Golden Age of Television." By 48 there were four networks with 128 stations running full prime-time programming seven days a week.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jul 26, 2017 23:16:46 GMT -5
I didn't know anyone had TVs in 1947, actually. I'd always assumed they first came into wide use in the 1950s. Sounds like somebody needs to read more comics. Actually, the television set in the Daredevil title was situated in a hotel lobby and enough people are gathered around it to indicate that this is a special event. I'd have to imagine that less than one percent of people in America owned a television set at that time and that you're right about it not coming into wide spread use until the 50's.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 26, 2017 23:18:49 GMT -5
I didn't know anyone had TVs in 1947, actually. I'd always assumed they first came into wide use in the 1950s. Sounds like somebody needs to read more comics. Actually, the television set in the Daredevil title was situated in a hotel lobby and enough people are gathered around it to indicate that this is a special event. I'd have to imagine that less than one percent of people in America owned a television set at that time and that you're right about it not coming into wide spread use until the 50's. Anecdotally, I know my grandfather purchased his first TV around 1953/1954, and the entire block came over to watch Milton Berle because no one else had a set yet. And Back to the Future (set in 1955) shows Marty McFly's grandparents having just purchased their first television set.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 27, 2017 7:23:55 GMT -5
Although only a relative few had sets, television was up and running early enough that there were live broadcasts from the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Had it not been for the war, when manufacturers had higher priorities, TV probably would have been as widely spread by the mid-'40s as it was by the early '50s.
Cei-U! I summon the might-have-beens!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 7:27:46 GMT -5
Cei-U! I summon the might-have-beens! might-have-beens have often created the best comics
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Post by Confessor on Jul 27, 2017 10:33:32 GMT -5
Here in the UK, the golden age of television really began with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Prior to that, the vast majority of households had radiograms for family entertainment. But the Queen's coronation being broadcast live resulted in a boom in TV sales and rentals. Even those who didn't get a TV for the coronation would've congregated around at a neighbour's house, where there was a TV and this, in turn, inspired further sales and rentals after the event because these people had been exposed to the "magic" of television. The impact of the coronation on making television mainstream over here really can't be underestimated. It ushered in the age of mass-media broadcasts for the UK. That said, we only had the one channel back in 1953 -- the BBC Television Service, which only broadcast from 10am til 11.10pm until well into the sixties. Then, in 1955, we got a second channel when ITV started broadcasting. By 1964 there were three channels, with the introduction of BBC2 (with the BBC Television Service being renamed BBC1). But it wasn't until 1982 that the UK got its fourth channel, when the aptly named Channel 4 started. These days we have hundreds of channels on Sky or Freeview, but it took us a fair while to get to the wealth of TV channels that you Americans have had for a long time.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 27, 2017 11:15:14 GMT -5
Queen Liz 2 was an absolute yummy romantic and political ideal. eloquent, staunch, everything which third wave feminists claim to be but fail at, whle 2nd wave fems were able to embrace for the betterment of dashing the gender-walls of achievement.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 28, 2017 17:09:11 GMT -5
I got a little bogged down in Tales to Astonish around issues #84 to #87. In the Namor series, it's just a bit too much Krang and Dorma. Issue after issue! There's also a cross-over with the Secret Empire from the Hulk series and unfortunately the Secret Empire storyline doesn't really have that much of a chance to go anywhere because the guys in the Secret Empire kill each other off before there's much of a chance for them any actual super-heroes. So weird! Their red and purple KKK robes are nicely rendered by Bill Everett at times. And the Hulk series is a bit more meandering than usual, with the Secret Empire, that hires Boomerang to kill the Hulk, and then Boomerang disappears for a few issues before he allegedly dies in Tales to Astonish #88. The art is mostly by John Buscema and it mostly looks good but to me, it lacks some of that Buscema spark that makes so much of his work so compelling. (And I have to admit the fight with the Hulk-Killer is pretty cool. Anyway, they finally conclude the Krang storyline in #87 as Namor defeats him in personal combat and Lady Dorma's betrayal is finally explained and things are set to right. #88 features a new Namor storyline (featuring Attuma and a robot that accidentally fell out of a spaceship and landed near Attuma's undersea barbarian camp-out). And also the Hulk concluded the old storyline with the Boomerang, but it's the start of Gil Kane's handful of issues leading up to the first appearance of the Abomination! The Hulk is one of my top favorites! And my favorite Hulk run starts right about here (because of the Gil Kane art) and smashes along for close to ten years, through the last year or so of Tales to Astonish and then into Hulk's own mag, from #102 to #200.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 28, 2017 22:51:23 GMT -5
we only had the one channel back in 1953 -- the BBC Television Service Most of us yanks assume this is still the case
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 23:16:04 GMT -5
Confessor ... I had 8-10 channels to choose from when I was 5 years old and a few years later it's went up to 13 channels in the early 70's. Right Now, I have 250 channels to choose from ...
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 29, 2017 1:29:09 GMT -5
For an interesting look at the early history of television and the way it was portrayed in other media, check out 1935's Murder by Television!
Bela Lugosi plays two roles!
And maybe you'll get super lucky and run across that beat-up print with a few frames missing and it looks like Hattie McDaniel is teleporting!
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Post by bor on Jul 29, 2017 1:51:55 GMT -5
we only had the one channel back in 1953 -- the BBC Television Service Most of us yanks assume this is still the case In Denmark we only had one station until 1989- DR (Danmarks Radio) Well you usually also got a couple sweedish, norwegian or german but still not much. Yeah for being a small country.
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