8 Groundbreaking Sci-Fi Comics That Became Collector Favorites

This was the first ongoing sci-fi comics anthology series ever; published in 1940, it set the standards and tropes for the modern space opera saga. Image source: Amazon.

Sci-fi comics were a groundbreaking genre in the early 20th century. It is taken for granted today, but sci-fi comics were seen as a moral threat to America’s youth back then. EC Comics and other pioneering comic book publishers were forced to stop publishing horror in the mid-1950s.

The sci-fi genre didn’t die out, but there are many early-era sci-fi comics that are historically important today. Censorship authorities tried to wipe out sci-fi and horror comics forever in the 1950s, but did not succeed.