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1980's
In the 1980's the comic world changed dramatically, It changed because comics had began to develop story lines in the books. With a new edition of the comic, Watchmen. -
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight returns recieved top natioinal attention in the 80's. Comic book stores were building in the 80's too, over 3,000 nation wide before the 90's -
Dark Horse
Sets of collections formed in the modern age comics as well, such as, Defiant Comics, Acclaim Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Malibu Comics. -
Star trek
new comics had arived after super hero comics such as Star Trek, The Tick, and Mystery Man -
Calvin and Hobbes
In 1985, Calvin and Hobbes was released as a new comic. A comic about a young boy who can speak to a friend tiger.Calvin and Hobbes, today, is still a popular top selling comic. -
Maus
In 1986, Maus, became the first comic book nominated by The National Book Critics Circle. It received the special Pulitzer in 1992. -
Worst Comics in the 90's
In the 1990's there were many great comics created, however, there were a lot of terrible comics made, Comics caterorgorized as the bad comics consisted of Thunder Strike, Nomad, and Fate. Comic creators attempted to make a new superman but resulted in a huge fail. -
Marvel
In the summer of 1991, Marvel was the first comic book publisher to be listed in the new york stock -
X-men
One of the most popular comics to evolve was X-men. X-men started in the 80's but got its real hype in August of 1992 when it released for the second time -
1995
Video games began to produce all throughout the U.S. Video games were created from many comics such as: Earthworm Jim, Spider Man, and Barbie Comics. -
1998
In the summer of 98 many comic book creators started to create different superheros, some became popular, some didn't. One of these superheros that did become popular was Daredevil. Daredevil became so popular that it later became a film in 2003 -
1999
The most popular comic book before the 2000's was the hit superhero Spider-Man -
2000
In the 2000 comic book era, comic books began to have more illustrated pictures and longer stories and more pages too a basic book. Superman and Justic League first began to top the charts in 2000 -
Today Popularity
Today most popular selling comics are
1) Superman
2) Spider-man
3) Batman
