what is the history of comic books?
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you know Bill watterson the creator of CAlvin and Hobbs wrote a very interesting article on all of this on his anniversery edtion of his comic...look it up\nits very informing and detailed &#92;not like me
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Go to marvel.com or marveldirectory.com\nThey have everything about Marvel.\nYou could also try wikipedia, of course.
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First of all, you have to look at the condition each comic is in.\n\nAre there any tears in any of the covers or pages?\nAre there any creases in any of the covers or pages?\nAre you one of those comic readers that fold over the pages to read one page at a time?\n\nOnce you have done that, you need to buy The Overstreet Comic Buyers Guide. After you've done that, look up the title, and see what each one is worth. \n\nNow that you are sufficiently armed, go to your nearest comic book store, and see if they want them. If they don't, THEN try eBay or Amazon.
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I think you may like these web.\nhttp://www.mangatutorials.com/tut/introduction.htm
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Grab one of DC's Green Lantern Archive Editions, like #3 or #4, to really see the stories that established Hal Jordan.\n\nUnfortunately with all the recent do-overs (Zero Hour, Infinite Crisis etc) it's hard to pick a best starting point among the recent stuff- I suppose the introduction of Kyle Raymer is a good spot to begin.
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There have been superhero comics and romance comics and horror comics, and teen comics, and western comics, and just about every other genre you could care to name or imagine. \n\nIsn't it wonderful that there is room within the medium for so many different genres, styles and people...? You sound as though you have some ideas and you may yet make your mark on the comics world. Good luck and we may see you in the funny papers someday!\n\n23 NOV 06, 0500 hrs, GMT.
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Some start at 25 dollars but it depends on how bad someone wants the comic. Some people may want the comic just for the purpose of having it and some people may just want to read and thats might not trigger them into buying something people can read online. You do know that people scan these things just so for the purpose of putting people like you who want money out of biz?
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November, 1961 (Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby): Comic Magazine\n\nThe Fantastic Four, no. 1-6 (Nov. 1961 - Sept. 1962)\n   Stan Lee Presents the Fantastic Four. -- New York : Pocket\n   Books, 1977. -- 160 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm. -- (Marvel\n   Comics Series)
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im not sure how basic you want it but this site offers comic style stuff (free) i hope its some use for you\ni used the stuff for helping my kids to read!\n\nhttp://coloringbookfun.com/ \n\nwhen you get there just scroll down to the bottom and theres loads of pics and stuff ....helped my kids
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Comics didn't die, but they were on life support there for a few years, because somebody thought that comics collectors were young and dumb enough to shell out $4.00 a pop for books that had no artistic value, no good story, but was a limited edition holofoil hologram special 1st issue with insert poster and card and part of a sweeping twenty issue mega-epic that would cross over into two dozen other books. Comics collectors decided they just were not that gullible and many gave it up. \n\nI was a huge Hulk collector, the Hulk with Peter David and when he refused to bend his talents to the big dogs who told him what he was going to write, he quit. The same goes for many other talented creators. All thrown out the window by money-hungry executives who did not know how to put out a comic book and inherently did not understand the true value and artistic talent that goes into one. Comics was a money-machine with no soul for a few years. People got tired of shelling out $50 a month for that ONE X-Men book they loved because it was a high priced crossover peice of crap. \n\nThe year I quit 1997-8. In my opine the biz was creatively at a standstill already. Thank goodness it's revived itself in the past few years and gone back to good stories, great art. Period. No high gloss multi-issue special edition crap anymore.
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Adventure Comics\nGreen Arrow & Green Lantern \nMarch of the Vermin \nhttp://www.the5earths1.50megs.com/earth-1/timespast/e1adventure1980-00.htm
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you can also try dot.comics\n\nIts a Marvel site
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The comics!  It's where all the stories that got thrown into both animations, the movies, and other media was developed and written and drawn!  \n\nThere's quite a deep well of information and action and drama and adventure and character development in the various X-men titles that it's hard to say if there's any basis for the cartoons and the movies that WASN'T in any of the X-cellent comic books!\n\nI especially loved Claremont's original run on the X-men.
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Let me clarify and/or refute the points everyone else made.\n\n"Novels have a realistic story, comics are about superheroes or talking animals."  No, it's not exclusive to either.  Graphic novels can be about superheroes, and comic books can be realistic!\n\n"Graphic Novels are for adults, comics are for kids."  In a sense, this is true - books like Sandman, Violent Messiahs, The Watchmen should not be read by kids - however, this doesn't mean that there aren't any novels that kids can't read, and that adults don't read comic books!\n\nBilltucker is correct in his assessment.\n\n"The two words mean the exact same thing."  Oh, no they don't.  There are lots of subtle differences between the two, and some have already been mentioned.  \n\njcmahal is also correct.\n\nAnd now, my two cents:  It is true that graphic novels are self-contained stories and that they can be stand alone, but keep in mind that sometimes graphic novels can be a reprint of a storyline in a comic book.  Like say, the "Maximum Carnage" story that spanned 12 issues of various Spider-man titles.  The graphic novel would have all 12 issues bound into one book - thus making it simpler to read the story; saving you from having to grab all 12 issues to find out what happened!  I also have to point out that in this case it's not self-contained - obviously, there were other issues of Spider-man before the Maximum Carnage story, and there are more issues that came out afterwards.  \n\nSometimes Graphic Novels can be of comic books that were printed; but the comic book was a limited series or had a small series of issues.  Case in point - "Preacher" or "Watchmen".  While these graphic novels did indeed come out in comic book form, they had a beginning and they had an end in their print run.  If you had bought the graphic novel, you would have the entire story.  (Or 8 books in the case of "Preacher".)  You couldn't do that with a comic book-based graphic novel like those of Spider-man or Wolverine.
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try http://www.dccomics.com/mad/
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The Graphic Novel Watchmen.  It's in Time magazines top 100 novels ever.  And it's the only comic book,  It was written by the same writer of V for Vendetta.  And yes they are currently making a movie of it.
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Try http://me.essortment.com/supermanhistory_ryql.htm or http://g.courtial.free.fr/supsto.htm.\n\nWikipedia says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Superman and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman.\n\nYou should be able to get multiple essays out of this background material. Don't forget to branch out to the references in the Wikipedia pages, they'll give you some useful historical context to Superman.\n\nSome of these references are almost exactly like your assignment, so be careful not to copy any of them. That's called plagiarism and it could get you a failing grade as many teachers are starting to check essays against internet references.