Platinum Age of Comic Books

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The Platinum Age of Comic Books refers to the early, pre–Golden Age period of comics history, when modern comic books were first emerging from newspaper strips and experimental formats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf era of comic books
historical period
alsoKnownAs early comic book era
pre–Golden Age of Comic Books
basedOn newspaper comic strips
country United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
endTime early 20th century
field comics history
popular culture history
follows Victorian era of illustrated humor periodicals
genre adventure comics
children’s comics
humor comics
hasCharacteristic emergence of modern comic book form
experimental formats
pre–Golden Age
transition from newspaper strips to comic books
includesForm comic pamphlets
comic strip reprint books
humor magazines
influenced Golden Age of Comic Books NERFINISHED
development of comic book format
syndicated newspaper strips
mainMedium print
notableCharacter Buster Brown NERFINISHED
Little Nemo NERFINISHED
The Katzenjammer Kids NERFINISHED
The Yellow Kid NERFINISHED
notableCreator Richard F. Outcault NERFINISHED
Rudolph Dirks NERFINISHED
Winsor McCay NERFINISHED
notablePublisher DC Thomson NERFINISHED
Dell Publishing NERFINISHED
Eastern Color Printing NERFINISHED
McClure Syndicate NERFINISHED
notableWork Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday NERFINISHED
Comic Cuts NERFINISHED
Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics NERFINISHED
The Funnies (1929) NERFINISHED
The Yellow Kid in McFadden’s Flats NERFINISHED
partOf history of American comics
history of British comics
precedes Golden Age of Comic Books NERFINISHED
startTime late 19th century
subjectOf comics scholarship
histories of comic books
typicalFormat pulp-style comic booklets
reprinted newspaper strips in booklet form
tabloid-sized comic sections

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Golden Age of Comic Books precededBy Platinum Age of Comic Books