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The first commercially successful newspaper comic strip was released by Richard Felton Outcault. It was called The Yellow Kid. It was about a group of kids in New York City and brought up issues of class and racial tensions.
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In 1920, graphic novels first got their start when popular comics from the newspapers started being compiled into novels. This set the stage for a new market of books.
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The first American comic book was published in 1929 by Dell Publishing. It was a newspaper tabloid insert and was titled the "Famous Funnies".
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New Fun Comics was the first comic to be published by the famous company that brought us Superman, DC Comics.
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The golden age of comics started with Action Comics. These dubbed the super heros we know and love today.
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Dubbed by historians
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The first Marvel comic was actually titled Marvel Comics, published in 1939 by what the company was known by then as Timely Publications.
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The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, the first graphic novel was published by Switzerland's Rudolphe Töpffer. The book was about Oldbuck and his attemps at love.
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From the 1950s on comics became a hit sensation. They were very popular and started to become collectors items.
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Published in 1950, It Rhymes With Lust was one of the first "graphic novels". Comics had gained popularity, but this book was more serious with drama and depth. Their publishing company dubbed it a "Picture Novel"
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Dubbed by historians
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Dubbed by historians
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Dubbed by historians
