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     • The magazine's original publisher, Educational Comics (EC), was founded by Max Gaines in 1945 and specialized in titles such as Picture Stories from the Bible.
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   Are comic books good for Education?

   • Fascination with the history and language of the form as a vehicle for education is clear. Comic books have long had a reputation for beingdisconnected from legitimate educational concerns. They were supposedly fluffy things, good for a laugh at best, agents of desensitization and proponents of violence at worst.

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   Where did comics come from?

   • The history of comics has followed different paths in different parts of the world. It can be traced back to early precursors such as Trajan's Column, in Rome, Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Bayeux Tapestry .

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   When did comic books come out?

   • The first modern American-style comic book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics (also a reprint collection of newspaper strips), was released in the U.S. in 1933 and by 1938 publishers were printing original material in the new format. It was at this point that Action Comics #1 launched, with Superman as the cover feature.

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   When did comic books become popular?

   • The popularity of the character swiftly enshrined superhero comics as the defining comics genre of American comic books. The genre lost popularity in the 1950s but re-established its domination of the form from the 1960s until the late 20th century. In Japan, a country with a long tradition of illustration, comics were hugely popular.

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3. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 12862Before Mad: The History of Educational Comics | Mental Floss

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   Oct 26, 2012 · The magazine's original publisher, Educational Comics (EC), was founded by Max Gaines in 1945 and specialized in titles such as Picture Stories from the Bible. But EC eventually gained notoriety...

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   Sep 22, 2020 · Comic book legend Will Eisner was among those who made comics central to army training. Eisner had created The Spirit—a comic book series full of voluptuous women and hooded justice—before being drafted into the U.S. Army

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   Oct 14, 2023 · So Gene Yang has a website where he details the history of comic books, and according to what he's written here, is in the 1940s, an estimated 95% of all eight- to 14-year-olds and 65% of 15- to 18-year-olds read comic books. And he's citing, I think it's Sones or Sones, 1944. It's just, it was everybody. Sterg.

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   Rodolphe Töpffer, a Francophone Swiss artist, was a key figure in the early part of the 19th century. Töpffer's sequentially illustrated stories, with text compartmentalized below images, were reprinted throughout Europe.

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   Robert Thorndike and George Hill, for example, analyzed the vocabulary of words found within comic books (Dorrell, Curtis, & Rampal, 1995), while Paul Witty led a study examining the reading content of comic books with 2500 school children (Sones, 1944).

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    Oct 9, 2020 · A brief history of comic books, from their start to contemporary times. Get to know the medium and its rise in popularity.

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    Aug 1, 2011 · The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey, has been devoted exclusively to the study of the form since 1976. The point of all this is that sequential art (the form of expression that fills graphic novels) is a form with something to teach us. The graphic novel is no longer just a format suitable to learn about.