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A history of the comic book industry in New York City, how the energy and diversity of the city influenced the burgeoning medium in the 1930s and 40s and how New York\u2019s history reflects out from the origins of its most popular characters.\n\nIn the 1890s a newspaper rivalry between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzee helped bring about the birth of the comic strip and, a few decades later, the comic book.\n\nToday, comic book superheroes are bigger than ever \u2014 in blockbuster summer movies and television shows \u2014 and most of them still have an inseparable bond with New York City.\n\nWhat\u2019s Spider-Man without a tall building from which to swing? But not only are the comics often set here; the creators were often born here too.\n\nMany of the greatest writers and artists actually came from Jewish communities in the Lower East Side, Brooklyn or the Bronx.\n\nFor many decades, nearly all of America\u2019s comic books were produced here.\xa0 Unfortunately that meant they were in certain danger of being eliminated entirely during a 1950s witch hunt by a crusading psychiatrist from Bellevue Hospital named Frederic Wertham.\n\nFEATURING a special chat with comics historian Peter Sandersonabout the unique New York City connections of Marvel Comics\u2019 most famous characters. Sanderson is the author of The Marvel Comics Guide to New York CityandThe Marvel Encyclopedia.\n\nWITH: The Yellow Kid, Little Orphan Annie, Batman, Doctor Strange and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!\n\nThe episode is a rebroadcast of a show which first aired on July 24, 2015.\xa0\n\n\xa0\n\nboweryboyshistory.com\n\n\xa0\n\nSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys