60% Of People Started Reading Comics Before They Turned 10

Every year on September 25th, National Comic Book Day honors the art, artists, and the National Comic Book Day soars into a community near you this September 25. The genre has grown to include full-length books, or graphic novels, and inspire countless movie adaptations. While they were first typically humorous in nature, it didn’t take long for authors to apply the comic style to all genres of storytelling.

• 18th Century – Comics have some origins in 18th Century Japan
• 1842 – First prototype comic book released. It was called The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
• 1896 – a comic book magazine was published in the United States featuring The Yellow Kid in a sequence titled “McFadden’s Row of Flats.” The 196-page book featured black and white print and measured 5×7 inches. It sold for 50 cents.
• 1897 – Considered to be the first comic book ever published, The Yellow Kid in McFadden’s Flats, is published in New York with the words “comic book” on its back cove
• 1922 – Considered to be the first comic book ever published, The Yellow Kid in McFadden’s Flats, is published in New York with the words “comic book” on its back cove
• 1933 – a comic book, Famous Funnies, appeared in the United States. Many believe the work to be the first real comic book. The reprinting of earlier newspaper comic strips established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.
• 1936 – Contrary to what you would believe, the most popular Marvel superhero isn’t the longest running one. It was Ka-Zar the Great, lord of the Jungle who was was supposed to make the most of the success of Tarzan. He first appeared in October 1936, three years before Marvel Comics was launched.
• 1938 – Superman was invented. It ushered in the Golden Age of comic books
• 1941 – In Captain America Comics #3, Stan Lee makes his debut into the world of comics, and he will eventually become an icon with more than 50 years in the industry
• 1945 – After WW II, crime and horror comics became the most popular genres and garnered a lot of controversy for their depiction of larger-than-life criminals, revenge tales, and gore. They were heavily criticized by educators and librarians arguing that they were deteriorating the minds of young readers.
• 1951 – the FBI investigated this industry and claimed that the horror and crime shown in these comics resulted in increased juvenile delinquency.
• 1954 – There was a campaign against “crime comics” led by psychiatrist Fredric Werhtam who also testified at the 1954 U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.
• 1960s – Marvel creates some of its major superheroes. Among them are the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man
• 1960s – Underground comix developed.  They reflected youth and drug counterculture
• 2007 – On November 13, 2007, Marvel Comics launched Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, a subscription service allowing readers to read many comics from Marvel’s history online
• The earliest comic strips, (which later gave birth to comic books), displayed dialogue in bubbles or balloons above characters’ heads.
• As an art form, the designs can be quite intricate. For example, text, dialogue, personalities, color, and imagery all enhance part of a storyline. Over time, these storylines also distinguish eras, artists, genres, and themes.
• People who collect comic books are known as pannapictagraphist.
• The term “comic book” comes from the first book sold as a book reprinted of humorous comic strips. Despite their name, comic books are not all humorous in tone and feature stories in all genres.
• There are a lot of comics around the world that are incredibly popular. One of the most popular comics is One Piece, which has sold more than 473 million copies around the world. One Piece is a Japanese manga series, which has been illustrated and written by Eiichiro Oda.
•  60% of people started reading comics before they turned 10
• A comic book is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes
  • It also called comic magazine or simply comic
  • Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative
  • Dialog is, usually, contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form
• The largest comic book market is Japan
  • Annual sales of 1.9 billion manga books/magazines in Japan
  • This is the equivalent to 15 issues per person
• The smartphone and the tablet have turned out to be an ideal medium for online distribution
• Comic books come in as many genres as novels do. The genres also fall into both fiction and non-fiction categories. Some of them include:
  • action/adventure
  • biography
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • historical
  • horror
  • military
  • political satire
  • romance
  • superhero
• With the release of Avenging Spider-Man #1, Marvel also became the first publisher to provide free digital copies as part of the print copy of the comic book
• What’s Jughead’s name?  Move over DC and Marvel, the Archie Comics have their own secrets. So Jughead had a real name, it was Forsythe Pendleton Jones II. He also had sister named Forsythia “Jellybean” Jones.
• Disney’s Donald Duck sets the record for appearing in most film. He is also the fifth most published character after the popular ones like Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wolverine.
• The Incredible Hulk was originally meant to be gray. Ink problems with printing created the mean, green monster as we know him today.
• There was an actual comic book superhero named the Green Lama. He was a Buddhist whose powers included reincarnation.
• Stan Lee got his start by writing obituaries. They were for celebrities in New York.
• Comic book movies and shows:
  • The Dark Knight (2008). This very dark representation of Gotham City in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy features the legendary performance of Heath Ledger as The Joker.
  • Daredevil (2015-2018). The blind Matt Murdock acts as a vigilante in this retelling of the original 1964 Stan Lee character who is a lawyer by day and cleans up New York City crime at night.
  • Riverdale (2017-2021). Recreating a noir version of the comic books The Archies, this teen drama was originally meant for the big screen but was adapted for television and ran on the CW.Sources:

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