Why did America develop such a big and prominent film and comic book industry while the rest of the world did not?

by Pashahlis
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This is simply wrong. Some statistics will immediately prove this claim to be entirely false.

#No. of films produced: The USA is in 4th place with 660 films produced in 2017. 1st place is India with 1,813 films; then Nigeria with 997 films; and China with 874 films. Japan is a close 5th place with 613 films.

#Box office revenues (USD): Hollywood produced films are indeed in first place, with $21.1B in 2018. China is not that far behind with $10B.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

#Comic sales (including print & digital) (USD) The USA is 3rd place with $1.1B, compared to $1.8B in Japan and $1.2B in China (most of which is Japanese manga anyway)

Source: IBISworld

Copies sold per year

Superman is the best selling series in the USA, averaging 7.41M copies a year. This is nothing compared to Japan, which has One Piece (20.64M), Naruto (16.67M) and Black Jack (20.00M).

Source: Wikipedia