The Legends Behind the Comic Books (movie)
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Chip Cronkite
- Production companies: Stonebridge Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 4/5/2008
- Run time: 56 min.
Movie description
This new documentary film recognizes the comic book as a true art form, as indigenous to American culture as jazz. It presents comic books as reflectors of a changing America from the 1930's to today, and it hails comic book superheroes as modern-day mythological figures. “THE LEGENDS BEHIND THE COMIC BOOKS” captures for posterity the living artists and writers from The Golden Age of Comic Books (1938-1951) and The Silver Age of Comic Books (1956-1973). Insightful comments are provided by the creative geniuses who were there at the beginning, including…
