American comic book Kane and Bill Finger created Batman, who debuted in "Detective Comics" #27 (1939). The period from the late 1930s through roughly the end of the 1940s is referred to by comic book experts as the Golden Age of comic books. It featured extremely large print-runs, with "Action Comics" and "Captain Marvel" selling over half a million copies a month each; comics provided very popular cheap entertainment during World War II especially among soldiers, but with erratic quality in stories, art, and printing. In the early 1940s over 90 percent of girls and boys from seven to seventeen read comic books.
His Name Is... Savage novellas "It Rhymes with Lust" and "The Case of the Winking Buddha". Like them, "Savage" was also sold on newsstands rather than in book stores. Marvel Comics, shortly after "Savage" appeared, published the first of a two-issue comics magazine, "The Spectacular Spider-Man", starring that titular superhero. Like the similar, anthological comics magazines of the time, such as "Creepy", "Eerie" and "Vampirella", both "His Name Is... Savage" and "The Spectacular Spider-Man" cost 35¢, whereas a typical comic book cost 12¢ and double-size issues 25¢. Gil Kane in the 1960s was a well-established comic-book artist who had co-created the modern versions of