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Exploring the World of Comic Books

Test your knowledge of comic book history, genres, and influential figures with this engaging quiz.

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1 In the United States the ________ genre dominates the market, even though other genres also exist.

2 Published and distributed independently of the established comics industry, most of such comics reflected the youth ________ and drug culture of the time.

3 For copyright purposes the company then photocopied and bound the unpublished original art for these titles and published it as ________ #1–2 in an edition of only 35 copies.

4 The repackaging of European material has occurred less frequently, although the Tintin and ________ serials have been successfully translated and repackaged in soft cover books.

5 Italy is also famous for being one of the foremost producers of ________ comic stories outside the US.

6 A few (notably RAW) were experimental attempts to bring comics closer to the status of ________.

7 Since the introduction of the comic-book format in 1934 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, with only the ________ and Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity of titles.

8 The introduction of ________ and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry,[1] and is often presented as the start of the Golden Age of comics.

9 The first comic book appeared in the ________ in 1934, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips, which established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.

10 In response to this attention from both the government and the media, the US comic book industry set up the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the ________ in the same year.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children.
  • Moorhuhn, a series of German computer games that has spawned much merchandise, a comic book series, and a TV series, began in 1999 as a whisky advertisement.
  • script breakdowns are the intermediate step between script and production in theater, film, television and comic books.
  • Chung, the Wolf of Kabul's sidekick in British story papers and comics, cracked heads with a cricket bat which he called "clicky-ba".
  • the comic-book mini-series '76 draws heavily on 1970s "street" culture.
  • the Young Romance comic book series, first published in 1947, is regarded as the first romance comic.
  • the DC comic book Batman: The Last Arkham drew on the influences of psychology and biology books such as "Superstition in the Common Pigeon".
  • Michigan State University Libraries has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items.
  • Len Lawson created several popular Australian comic book characters, including the "Lone Avenger" and the "Hooded Rider".
  • A Commitment To Our Roots is the first charity devoted to helping comic book industry veterans in need.
  • Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck".
  • Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist.
  • communication bubbles (or communication balloons) are used in comic books and strips to allow the characters' words and thoughts to be viewed by the reader.
  • Karl Zinsmeister, a U.S. journalist and the new top domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush, wrote a book-length Marvel comic book on the Iraq War.
  • Jeremiah Arkham, the sadistic head of Arkham Asylum in the Batman universe of DC Comics, held Batman captive in his comic book debut.
  • Dell Comics issued contemporaneous comic books featuring the ABC network's 1961 TV series, Follow the Sun.
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