Product: Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2005)
Rating: 5.0
The HISTORY of comics
While the History Channel only occasionally makes entertaining and factual documentaries, this one was great. This is a 100 minute documentary film that doesn't really cover the HISTORY of comics, it covers the HISTORY of the comics industry. It leaves out a lot, but does manage to weave a rough narrative of the comic book industry from the beginnings of Superman until about the year 2001.The reason I say that this does not cover the HISTORY of comics as a whole is that it ignores the comic strip almost entirely. These were important because they gave birth to the comic book industry. As a result, heroes who predated Superman such as The Phantom, Dick Tracy, The Clock, Flash Gordon and The Green Hornet are not mentioned. The documentary does take the viewer through all the major developments in the industry from the beginnings of the Golden Age to post WW2 to the Marvel age and the development of modern comics in the 1980's. Worth a watch and worth buying if you are a comic book fan!