1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head> 2 <title>TheComicBooks.com - The History of Comic Books - TheGraphicNovels.com</title> 3 <link href="000.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> 4 <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="favicon.ico"> 5 <meta content="Jamie Coville" name="Author"> 6 <meta content="comics, comic books, graphic novel, spider-man, batman, x-men, wolverine, hulk, superman, punisher, blade, disney, mickey mouse, donald duck, archie, JLA, superfriends, sandman, platinum, popeye, tarzan, Image, li'l abner, magazine, Independents, teen age mutant ninja turtles, graphics, links, DC, history, adult, yellow kid, spawn, amazon, mcfarlane, wonder woman, jughead, captain america, thor, iron man, avengers, fantastic four, dr. doom, green arrow, justice league of america, preacher, transmet, transmetropolitian, vertigo, swamp thing, xmen, superheroes, 1954, gif, jpg, Wertham" name="Keywords"> 7 <meta content="The History of Graphic Novels and Comic Books" name="Description"> 8</head><body> 9<?php include "menu.php"; ?> 10<center> 11<h3>TheComicbooks.com | TheGraphicNovels.com</h3> 12</center> 13<blockquote> 14 <p> 15My name is Jamie Coville and this is my comic book history website. I'll start off telling you 16that Comic Books have been around in one form or another for over two hundred years. There is a lot 17of history to cover and I am doing it piece by piece. My coverage is detailed with a lot of cover scans 18in both small and large sizes. Every link within opens up into a new window so you won't lose your place in 19reading the history. What I have available now is: </p> 20 <p> 21<a href="nsp1-01.html">Newsstand Period Part 1. 1922 - 1955</a>.<br> 22<a href="nsp2-01.html">Newsstand Period Part 2. 1955 - 1984</a> (in progress).<br> 23<a href="1954senatetranscripts.html">1954 Senate Subcommittee Transcripts</a>.<br> 24<a href="cca1954.html">1954 Comics Code Authority Guidelines, with analysis</a>.<br> 25<a href="1955senateinterim.html">1955 Senate Interim Report on Juvenile Delinquency</a>.<br> 26<a href="comics.html">Public Domain Comic Book Scans</a>. 27</p> 28<P>Other things I've got on here include:<br> 29My original <a href="/old/index.html">History of Superhero Comic Books</a> with all of it's flaws left intact. <br> 30<a href="audio.html">Podcasts of various Comic related Panels, Awards Shows and Interviews</a>. <br> 31And for fun <a href="/buddyicons/buddyicons.html">Comic Related Buddy Icons</a>.</P> 32 33<P>For those of you who are somewhat familiar with comic books have probably heard terms like 34Golden Age, Silver Age and so on. Those terms were created to describe the high points in superhero 35comic book popularity as the early writers of comic history were mainly superhero fans. There have been 36periods where superheroes were not popular or comics of other genre's were just as popular. Those 37periods were later given names like Atom Age, Bronze Age and so on. There are also debates on when 38certain ages start and stop. For a while people have been calling the last 20+ years simply Modern Age. 39There is currently more debating about what to call the more recent years - with Gold, Silver and Bronze 40taken people are wondering how many metallic names can we use before we start calling something the Tin 41Foil Age and laughing at it. I've broken with tradition because it needed to be broken. The old ways 42were limited in focusing on two periods of superhero comics with other periods tacked on as an after 43thought. Those labels are no longer apt for describing a medium that's grown as we have. Considering 44our long history of diversity, I question if they ever were.</p> 45 46<P>In looking for a new way to write about comic book history, I discovered comic book stories 47differ quite a bit depending on where and how they are being sold. Free comics are typically all 48ages material meant to promote something. Newsstand comics are usually serial and designed 49to get you to come back and buy the next one. Underground comics sold in drug paraphernalia stores 50are often adults only and discuss taboo subjects. Book store comics (aka Graphic Novels) are typically 51thick books with a complete story (although that is changing). While there are exceptions to all of 52these the general standard usually holds true. By describing comic book history in this method I do not 53run into issues of picking one genre's popularity or running out of labels to use. I am also able to 54separate the different types of comics quite easily. But no system is perfect and this one is no 55exception, there are periods where the same comic books have been sold in more than one outlet at the 56same time. I'll split these up where I think best using a variety of industry information. I'll write 57my explanations when I get to those points.</p> 58 59<P>I hope you enjoy the page.</P> 60 61<P><cite>
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