
By 1979, monthly comic book circulation was its lowest since the early ‘40s.” This state of things-comics being immature, unpopular, and creatively stagnant-makes the maturation of the form represented by Miller, Spiegelman, Moore, and others look almost heroic.

Comics, in other words, were for kids, and increasingly few of them. In Jeremy Dauber’s fascinating book American Comics: A History, he notes two crucial-and seemingly related-points about the comics industry in the late ‘70s: at the time, “Scholars pegged the reading level of twenty popular comic book titles as ranging from 1.8 to 6.4. Phase Five of the MCU Is Just Beginning.What Do Marvel and Faulkner Have In Common?.

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