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49 unusual facts about American comic book


Barclay Manufacturing Company

These were painted similar to figures in American comic books of the time - olive drab uniforms with green helmets with "enemy" soldiers in red uniforms with white helmets.

Batman: Gotham County Line

Batman: Gotham County Line is a three-issue American comic book limited series written by Steve Niles, known for his series 30 Days of Night, and illustrated by Scott Hampton.

Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities

Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities is a four issue American comic book limited series published in 2005, by Dark Horse Comics.

Blue Bolt

Blue Bolt is a fictional American comic book superhero created by writer-artist Joe Simon in 1940, during the period fans and historians refer to as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

Brian David-Marshall

Brian David-Marshall has worked in all areas of the American comic book medium for more than 20 years from retail, editorial, writing and creating a new title for Marvel Comics.

Captain Flight Comics

Captain Flight Comics is an American comic book series published by Four Star Publications during the period that is known by fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

Comics

American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s.

Duke of Oil

The Duke of Oil (Earl J. Dukeston) is a fictional cyborg supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

Earth-One

Earth-One (also Earth-1) is a name given to two fictional universes (The Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis versions of the same universe) that have appeared in American comic book stories published by DC Comics.

Fangoria Comics

Fangoria Comics was an American publisher of horror comics, releasing issues solely in the year 2007.

Fortune and Glory

Fortune and Glory is an Eisner Award-nominated 3-issue American comic book limited series by Brian Michael Bendis, telling the story of his attempts to break into Hollywood by writing screenplays for his noir comics.

His Name Is... Savage

Created by the veteran American comic book artist Gil Kane, who conceived, plotted and illustrated the project, and writer Archie Goodwin, who scripted under the pseudonym Robert Franklin, the black-and-white magazine was published by Kane's Adventure House Press, and distributed to newsstands.

Holyoke Publishing

Because of incomplete documentation of the early days of the American comic book, some sources misstate Holyoke's role.

Insufferable

Insufferable is an American comic book series written by Mark Waid and digitally published by Waid's Thrillbent label.

Jijé

He then created his own series, Jean Valhardi, and drew episodes of the American series published during the war, like Red Ryder and Superman, when due to the war, the American pages could not reach the publisher.

Jingle Jangle Comics

Jingle Jangle Comics was a ten-cent, bimonthly, 42-issue, 68-page (later reduced to 52-page) children’s-oriented American comic book published by Eastern Color under the Famous Funnies, Inc. imprint between February 1942 and December 1949.

Kazuki Takahashi

He also enjoys reading American comics, with Hellboy being his favorite American comic book character.

Kona, Monarch of Monster Isle

Kona, Monarch of Monster Isle is a fictional American comic book character who was featured in his own self-titled series, published by Dell Comics in the 1960s.

Lex Luthor: Man of Steel

Lex Luthor: Man of Steel (later collected as simply Luthor) is a five-issue monthly American comic book limited series written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, which features Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor as the main protagonist.

Masked Raider

The Masked Raider is an American comic book character who appeared in American comic books published during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

Midnight Nation

Midnight Nation is a religious-themed twelve-issue American comic book limited series, created by J. Michael Straczynski and published from 2000 to 2002 by Top Cow Productions under their now defunct Joe's Comics imprint.

National Publications

The corporation was originally two companies: National Allied Publications (founded by Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 to publish the first American comic book with all-original material rather than comic strip reprints) and Detective Comics.

Noble Causes

Noble Causes is an American comic book series created and written by Jay Faerber, illustrated by a variety of artists (the current artist being Yıldıray Çınar) and published by Image Comics.

Omega the Unknown

Omega the Unknown was an American comic book published by Marvel Comics from 1976 to 1977, featuring the eponymous fictional character.

Our Army at War

Our Army at War was an American comic book published by DC Comics that featured war themed stories and featured the first appearances of Sgt. Rock and Enemy Ace.

Pigeons from Hell

More recently, it has been turned into a four-issue comic book mini-series and trade paperback.

PKNA

The format of each PKNA issue was bigger and similar to that of American comics.

Planet Comic Book Radio

Planet Comic Book Radio (PCBR) is a weekly podcast hosted by American comic book creator Javier Hernandez.

Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu

Ono said that he likes American comics because the artwork and storylines have "such a different flavor" than artwork and storylines of Japanese comics.

Project Fanboy

Project Fanboy (PF) is an American website that publishes news, interviews and reviews about the American comic book industry.

Quality Comics

Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1937 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books.

Skrull Kill Krew

However, it was changed to a mini-series, because of wider problems in American comic book market in the mid-1990s and changes at Marvel, with DeFalco leaving.

Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.

Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. was an American comic book published by DC Comics, featuring the second Star-Spangled Kid and her stepfather, the original version's sidekick Stripesy.

Stel

Stel is a fictional American comic book superhero, an extraterrestrial robot from the planet Grenda and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps for space sector 3009.

Steve Ekstrom

Initially, he started out reviewing comic books independently via MySpace.com under the pseudonym "The Masked Comic Dork", in an attempt to enter the American comic book industry.

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures was the title of several American comic books published by DC Comics, the first of which began in 1950.

Susumu Matsushita

Susumu Matsushita (松下進 Matsushita Susumu, born February 6, 1950 in Fussa, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist known for his unique American comic–influenced design.

Tales of the Green Beret

Tales of the Green Beret continued to be published as an American comic book by Dell Publishing from 1967 - 1969.

Team-up

In American superhero comic books, a team-up is when two superheroes or superhero teams who usually do not appear together fight crime together.

The Funnies

Dell Publishing's second publication by this name was a standard American comic book published during the 1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.

The Kagestar

Originally fighting American comics-style costumed crooks, in later episodes his foes became Kamen Rider-style mutated monsters created by his archenemy Dr. Satan (Goro Naya), a former Nazi scientist turned megalomaniacal mastermind also identified in some English language sources as Dr. Saturn.

The Maxx

The Maxx is an American comic book series created by Sam Kieth and published originally monthly by Image Comics and now collected in trade paperback collections from DC Comic's Wildstorm imprint.

The Venger: Dead Man Rising

The Venger: Dead Man Rising is an independent American comic book series, written and created by Matthew Spatola.

Tuff Ghosts Starring Spooky

Tuff Ghosts Starring Spooky was an American comic book series, published by Harvey Comics.

Ultimate Human

Ultimate Human (originally titled Ultimate Hulk vs. Iron Man) is an American comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics.

United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency

They focused on particularly graphic "crime and horror" comic books of the day, and their potential impact on juvenile delinquency.

Untold Tales of Spider-Man

Untold Tales of Spider-Man is an American comic book series starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 26 issues (#1-25, and a -1 issue between #s 22 and 23) from September, 1995 to October, 1997.

Valerie D'Orazio

Her story includes many references to sexism in the American comic book industry as well as tales of struggles with her health.

Young Heroes in Love

Young Heroes in Love was an American comic book series published by DC Comics; it ran for 18 issues (including the #1,000,000 issue) from 1997 to 1998.