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The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…
Contributor:
Will Eisner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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Batman is one of the longest-running comic series in the world, in continuous publication since 1939. When it made its debut, it was unique in featuring a hero who was an ordinary man without…
Contributor:
Milton "Bill" Finger, Bob Kane
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1939
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Sick, Sick, Sick was very different from other comic strips of the 1950s. It had the format of a comic strip but did not have conventional story lines or superheroes. Instead, it was more like an…
Contributor:
Jules Feiffer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1958