Superman debuts
1938 · Work
Action Comics #1 introduces Superman, popularising the superhero genre that would dominate later popular culture.
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Around 1938
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)