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Cover page of comic featuring man with bat wings outstretched swinging through the air over buildings with a villain under his arm as two detectives watch, and heading "Detective Comics" across the top.

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Detective Comics, May 1939: The Amazing and Unique Adventures of the Batman, cover

Milton "Bill" Finger | Bob Kane

1939

Newstrip comic with two rows of headings across the top, and two rows of three comic panels each with image and English text in bubbles, featuring man in suit speaking to another man in an office.

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“The Spirit,” June 2, 1940

Will Eisner

1940

Comic book cover with the title "Superduperman" and a Superman-like figure in a cape who is attacking an elderly disabled man, surrounded by a crowd and a cityscape, with English text and three comic panels underneath, of the exterior of a skyscraper in the first panel, exterior of a window in the second panel, and interior of an office in the third panel.

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“Superduperman,” Mad #4

Harvey Kurtzman

1953

Comic strip with eight images of the same bearded man in robes with text next to each version of him.

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Sick, Sick, Sick

Jules Feiffer

1958

Comic strip featuring a title and heading across the top in French, and eight panels of comics below. The comics portray warriors, a man against several opponents, two warriors, a stylized map of France, a map of enemy tents, a warrior on a chair interrupted by a boy, two warriors talking, and four warriors talking while hiding behind a tree.

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Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover

René Goscinny

1959

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Masterpiece

Roy Lichtenstein

1962

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“Chickensouperman” from L’il Abner

Al Capp

1966

Print depicting a man's head wearing helmet on an eagle's body chained to a perch and French caption.

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“L’aigle déplumé! . . .” (The Bald Eagle!)

Alphonse Lévy

1870–1871

Etching of two men boxing.

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Humphreys and Mendoza: Their Third Public Contest for Superiority, on Sept. 29, 1790

ca. 1790

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The Difference

Ephraim Kishon

1954

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Yaʻakobi & Leidental

Hanoch Levin

1972

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Mr. Israel Shefi’s Night of Independence

Avraham Raz

1972