The Golden Age of DC ComicsIn June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powersa man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter. Supermans story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters,