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Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938) is the first issue of the original run of the comic book/magazine series Action Comics. It features the first appearance of several comic-book heroes—most notably the Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster creation, Superman —and sold for 10 cents (equivalent to $2 in 2023).
Titles 0–9 A Alter Ego (4 issues) American Flagg! (50 issues, plus special, then 12 issue series) Alien Bones (graphic novel, 2019) B Badger (70 issues, plus a 4 issue limited series and two graphic novels) Beowulf (graphic novel, 1984) Betty Boop's Big Break (graphic novel, 1990) C Corum (Michael Moorcock adaptation): The Chronicles of Corum (12 issues, 1987-1988) The Bull and the Spear (4 ...
Raw was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published in the United States by Mouly from 1980 to 1991. It was a flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the underground tradition of Zap and Arcade. [1]
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form.
Debuting in August 1952 (cover-dated October–November), [1] Mad began as a comic book, part of the EC line published from offices on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan.In 1961 Mad moved its offices to mid-town Manhattan, and from 1996 onwards it was located at 1700 Broadway [2] until 2018 when it moved to Los Angeles, California to coincide with a new editor and a reboot to issue #1.
By the mid-1970s, the underground comix movement was encountering a slowdown, [1] and Spiegelman and Griffith conceived of Arcade as a "safe berth". It stood out from similar publications by having an ambitious editorial plan, in which Spiegelman and Griffith attempted to show how comics connected to the broader realms of artistic and literary culture. [3]
The Walking Dead debuted in 2003, published by Image Comics, with art by Tony Moore for the first six issues and Cliff Rathburn shading the art after issue #5. Charlie Adlard took over as artist on issue #7, after he was approached by Kirkman. [3] Moore also created the cover art for the first 24 issues and the first four trade paperbacks. The ...
1980 in comics - debut: Bloom County, She-Hulk, Starfire, Cyborg, The Far Side, Raw; 1981 in comics - debut: Thrud the Barbarian, Torpedo; 1982 in comics - debut: Camelot 3000 (first Maxi-series) 1983 in comics - published: Metropol #1; 1984 in comics - debut: Dragon Ball, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; 1985 in comics - debut: Calvin and Hobbes