Platinum Age (1897-1937)
Early 1897 a book called The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats came out. The comic was 196 pages long, square bound, black and white, 50 cents and 5 ½" x 7 ½". It was published by G. W. Dillingham Company with permission from Hearst, the newspaper that had Hogan's Alley at the time. It was a part of a series that Dillingham did on American Authors, only he took special liberties with this one and created what is today known as a comic book. In fact this comic that coined the phrase "Comic Book" as it's written on the back cover. Inside we get an origin of sorts as it reprints the earliest Yellow Kid's appearances. There is some text within by E. W. Townsend explaining Outcault and the Kid. This comic book starts what is now called the Platinum Age of Comics.
 |
