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American Comic Books
A Timeline.
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1895
The New York World, owned by
Joseph Pulitzer, begins publishing
a series of comics by Richard
Outcault taking place in Hogan's
Alley, and featuring a boy in a
yellow nightshirt who becomes
known as "The Yellow Kid."
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1905
Little Nemo in Slumberland, by
Winsor McCay, begins running in
the New York Herald. The first
comic with a continuing story, it
is still noted as one of the most
richly illustrated comic strips of
all time. Having a continuingstory is a convention of American
style comic books.
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1937
The first issue ofDetective
Comics is released by the
company that will
eventually be named DC
Comics. (DC is an
abbreviation for "Detective
Comics.") DC Comics is still one of the
Big Two comic publishers.
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1938
Action Comics makes its first
appearance, and features the
first superhero ever:
Superman. He can run faster
than a train, leap over tall
buildings, and block bullets
withhis chest, but isn't yetable to fly. The character is a
hit, and many more
superh
ero comics follow.
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1939
"The Bat-Man" makes his
first appearance in
Detective Comics. Unlike
Superman, Batman has no
powers; he fights crime
using martial arts,
technology, and his mind.
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1939 (again!)
Timely Comics releases
Marvel Comics, including
Prince Namor the Sub-
Mariner and several other
heroes. Timely will
eventually be renamed
Marvel. Marvel is the other Big
Two comic publisher
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1939 once more
First appearance ofThe Flash, (An important
superhero in comics culture to this day).
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1940
DC presents Alan
Scott, who makes a
ring that allows him
to use the light of
the GreenLantern.
To this day, Green
Lanternis a popularsuperhero.
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1940
Brenda Starr debuts. Thestar of the strip is aredheaded reporter whooften visits exotic places.
It's notable for beingcreated by a woman,Dale Messick. The stripcontinues to be female-created, still running
today, being written byMary Schmich and drawnby June Brigman.
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1941
First appearance ofCaptain America forwhat will be Marvel
comics First appearance of
Wonder Woman forDC. (WonderWoman is createdby a psychiatrist toembody femaleideals ofheroism).
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1959
Supergirl, cousin
of Superman
created.
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1961
Marvel presents Stan Lee's TheFantastic Four, a superherogroup consisting of Mr.Fantastic, The Invisible Girl,
The Thing, and The HumanTorch. Unusually, the teammembers didn't hide their realidentities (Reed Richards,Susan Storm, Ben Grimm, and
Johnny Storm). Reed and Susanwould marry in 1965.
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The same year.
First appearance
of the Incredible
Hulk.
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1963
X Men number 1
published. No Wolverine
yet. The original team is
the Angel, the Beast,
Cyclops, Iceman, and
Marvel Girl.
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1964
First appearance of
Daredevil. A
blind attorney by
day, crime
fighting vigilante
by night.
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1986
First wave of comicstargeted directly at adults.Art Spiegelmans Maus,Frank Millers The Dark
Knight Returns and AlanMoores Watchmen allpublished in 1986.Considered serious worksWatchmen is regarded as
one of the greatest novels,(graphic or otherwise), ofthe 20th Century.
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1989
The Sandman is publishedby DC comics. Still the onlycomic book to win a HugoNebula Fantasy Award.
DC decides to publishTheSandman and Swamp Thingusing a new company,Vertigo comics. Vertigoexclusively deal with adult
content.
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2002
Shonen Jump, a Japanese
Manga, is published in
English for the first time,
selling 300000 copies it is
a huge success.
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2008
Both DC comics and Marvel
have continuing success
with their movie properties.
Iron Man is a huge success.The Dark Knight wins a
posthumous Oscar for its
villain Heath Ledger.
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2009
The unfilmable Watchmen, is filmed.
Marvel industries is sold to Disney for $4 billion.