Issue 1 Comic

[Kerrie Gingrich]

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Thank you everyone! Sorry for the late reply, I totally forgot to come back here and check if there were any comments, lol. Adrienn, you are absolutely right. I think planning your story goes hand in hand with writing the outline. In order to write the outline you have to have an idea where the story is going, right? Good catch!

Some good insight. Thanks. Got around 40 original ideas for books (including one published) that I have decided to turn into comics. They seem to move a lot faster than books. Have been told my ideas are what Hollywood needs. Maybe comic form is the way in. One never knows.

Most new books clearly state which printing the book is right where the # of the issue is (roman numerals for 90's DC's). In other cases if this is not stated somewhere near the issue #, the last number on the smaller UPC bar on the right will tell you the printing of the book it is. For instance, I have a Batman Beyond Unlimited in my hand which is a 2nd print. The UPC reads:

Also, the 2nd print cover is red versus being white like the 1st print. You would only know this if you had/have seen the 1st print. Again, the UPC is the best/first place to look on any book past the date that all comics now have a UPC instead of possibly having some sort of picture in the UPC box, as opposed to the scanner bars.

In the past, when direct comics had some sort of picture/logo/writing in the box versus the newsstand version which had the scanner bars, the indicia is the place to look. That is the legal jargon usually on the same page as the title page, wherever that is. This will almost always tell you the printing # somewhere at the bottom in bolder type.

Marvel now tends to print their 2nd/later printings with a cover that is completely different than the 1st print counterpart. It is usually a splash page from the inside of the comic that now becomes the cover. These again will have the printing stated in the UPC and in the indicia.

The numbers on recalledcomics.com are generally suspect at best. Most of the numbers people want (and some lying insufficiently_thoughtful_persons invent to fill the void) are not available to the public.

I just bought a raw copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 Vol 5 Lucio Parrillo SDCC convention exclusive variant. What does the Vol 5 indicate about the printing of this comic? Is a Vol 5 more valuable than say, a Vol 6 of the same issue?

Now, back to Jem. Have you read the Jem and the Holograms comic yet? What did you think of it? And a question for comic book readers, can one subscribe to a comic, like a magazine? Educate me. I would so prefer that to having to hope the comic shop gets it each month. Share your thoughts below.

A comic book, also called comicbook,[1][2] comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form.

Comic Cuts was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884) which is notable for its use of sequential cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside the popular lurid "penny dreadfuls" (such as Spring-heeled Jack), boys' "story papers" and the humorous Punch magazine which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing.

The first modern American-style comic book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics, was released in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.[3] The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.

Comic books heavily rely on their organization and visual presentation. Authors dedicate significant attention to aspects like page layout, size, orientation, and the positioning of panels. These characteristics are crucial for effectively conveying the content and messages within the comic book. Key components of comic books encompass panels, speech bubbles (also known as balloons), text lines, and characters. Speech balloons generally take the form of convex containers that hold character dialogue and are connected to the character via a tail element. The tail comprises an origin, path, tip, and directional point. The creation of comic books involves several essential steps: writing, drawing, and coloring. Various technological tools and methods are employed to craft comic books, incorporating concepts such as directions, axes, data, and metrics. Following these formatting guidelines, the process unfolds with writing, drawing, and coloring.[12] In the United States, the term "comic book", is generally used for comics periodicals and trade paperbacks while "graphic novel" is the term used for standalone books.[13][14]

Comics as a print medium have existed in the United States since the printing of The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck in 1842 in hardcover,[15] making it the first known American prototype comic book. Proto-comics periodicals began appearing early in the 20th century, with the first comic standard-sized comic being Funnies on Parade. Funnies on Parades was the first book that established the size, duration, and format of the modern comic book. Following this was, Dell Publishing's 36-page Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics as the first true newsstand American comic book; Goulart, for example, calls it "the cornerstone for one of the most lucrative branches of magazine publishing".[16] In 1905 G.W. Dillingham Company published 24 select strips by the cartoonist Gustave Verbeek in an anthology book called 'The Incredible Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo'.[17] The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry[18] and ushered in the Golden Age of Comic Books. The Golden Age originated the archetype of the superhero. According to historian Michael A. Amundson, appealing comic-book characters helped ease young readers' fear of nuclear war and neutralize anxiety about the questions posed by atomic power.[19]

Historians generally divide the timeline of the American comic book into eras. The Golden Age of Comic Books began in 1938, with the debut of Superman in Action Comics #1, published by Detective Comics (predecessor of DC Comics), which is generally considered the beginning of the modern comic book as it is known today.[20] The Silver Age of Comic Books is generally considered to date from the first successful revival of the then-dormant superhero form, with the debut of the Flash in Showcase #4 (Oct. 1956).[21][22] The Silver Age lasted through the late 1960s or early 1970s, during which time Marvel Comics revolutionized the medium with such naturalistic superheroes as Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four and Lee and Steve Ditko's Spider-Man. The demarcation between the Silver Age and the following era, the Bronze Age of Comic Books, is less well-defined, with the Bronze Age running from the very early 1970s through the mid-1980s.[23] The Modern Age of Comic Books runs from the mid-1980s to the present day.[24]

A significant event in the timeline of American comic books occurred when psychiatrist Fredric Wertham voiced his criticisms of the medium through his book Seduction of the Innocent (1954). This critique led to the involvement of the American Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, which launched an investigation into comic books. Wertham argued that comic books were accountable for a surge in juvenile delinquency and posed a potential impact on a child's sexuality and moral values.[25] In response to attention from the government and from the media, the US comic book industry set up the Comics Magazine Association of America.[26] The CMAA instilled the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the self-censorship Comics Code that year, which required all comic books to go through a process of approval. It was not until the 1970s that comic books could be published without passing through the inspection of the CMAA.[27] The Code was made formally defunct in November 2011.

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