Historically, comics have been used as entertainment for children and teenagers. In 1933 two Eastern Color Printing Company unintentionally created a comic book by compiling a comic book and published it as a full-size magazine (Wright, 2001). This accidental discovery was the platform for a multi-million dollar a year industry when young America took notice. As early as the 1940s, educators and educational facilities noticed this and began research into the value of comics in education. Although the investigations led to a final split in decisions, many, such as Child Study Association of America director Sidonie Gruenberg, believed that educational comics could be of great benefit: “There is hardly a topic that does not lend itself to be presented through this medium." Those on this side of the fence believed that the use of comics could ideally encourage reading by embracing this new literary medium. It was also around this time that the first classroom study was done as teachers began to create a curriculum that supported the study of comics. (Sones, 1944) Puck-the Comic Weekly was introduced to students in hundreds of classrooms. The Journal of Educational Sociology was so intrigued by the results of this experiment that the 4th issue of volume 18 in 1944 was assigned to this study. Naturally there was opposition to this belief that comics could be useful in classrooms. Many thought that even the idea of ​​this was absurd, and the introduction of this concept would be harmful to the learning processes of students everywhere. This, however, was not just an opposition to educational comics but to comics as a whole. This platform was led by a...... middle of paper ......l of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 45, 758-767.Sones, W. (1944). Comics and the teaching method. Journal of Sociology of Education, 18, 232-240.Sturm, James. (2002, April 5). Comics in the classroom. The Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. B14-5.Versaci, R. (2001). How comics can change the way our students see literature: A teacher's perspective. English Journal, 91 (2), 61-67.Wax, E. (2002, May 17). Back to the drawing board; Comics, once banned, are now a teaching tool. The Washington Post, pp. B.01.Williams, N. (1995). Comics as a textbook: why and how. Long Beach, CA: Annual Meeting of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 390277) Wright, B. (2001). Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.