Popular Culture

Superman & Popeye

• traditional values, desire for order and security, sense of community, belonging, purpose; emphasis on family, neighbors, church; achieve sense of success rather than failure
  
• Tarzan 1929 used camera perspective, not flat style, by Harold Foster; brought order and stability to jungle
  
• Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century began 1929
  
• Popeye 1929
  
• Dick Tracy by Chester Gould 1931
  
• Joe Palooka 1931
  
• Superman 1933 by 2 teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster who were inspired by the film star Douglas Fairbanks - as comic book 1938, as radio show 1939
  
• Terry and the Pirates 1934
  
• Lil Abner 1935 by Al Capp (until 1977)
  
• Prince Valiant 1936
  
• Lone Ranger 1938
  
• social games - contract bridge adopted by middle class - Scrabble by Alfred Butts
  
• Monopoly by Charles Darrow 1933, an unemployed radiator repairman in Germantown, Pa. - sold sets to Wanamakers, then 10,000 to Parker Bros for 1934 Christmas - 1935 patent - reflects basic values of success, competition, acquisition, achievement - used resort town of Atlantic City for property names - N-S streets after states, E-W streets after oceans, Park Place and Boardwalk, grand hotels such as the Wiltshire and Claridge