HISTORY OF COMICS
The first comic magazine was called strangly THE COMICK MAGAZINE.
It was published on the 1st of April 1796 in london.
Back then they where very different to what you know of as a comic book of today.
They were only published for adults and the text on the comics was mostly at the bottom of the comic.
From 1796 to 1890 comic images where printed from many places around the globe mostly Europe.
The first comic was said to be COMIC CUTS that was published on 17 may 1890 but as I have all ready said it is not true but they took the false honour of it anyway.
As the nineteen hundreds came comics where starting to be publish for kids, CHIPS (all english again)was one of the first to be published it came out as a companion to COMIC CUTS.
In the USA the newspapers were starting to print Sunday comic pages all in colour from around 1892 onwards.
One of the first comic books to come out was in 1873 which was a heap of strips of a comic called MAX AND MORITZ put all together in one book.
Over the years comics were made more and more for children as they became the bigest readers of them.
It was not till the 30's till the modern comic books started to take off with titles like BEANO 1938 published in england which still is published to this day.
The Americans started publishing comic books in 1902 with a ad in the paper telling people that they were going to put a heap of comic strips all in on book.
The comics were reprints from older newspapers but there was still a big rush on it just before Christmas.
From the start of the nineteen hundreds to the 40's there where so many comics published that there is no way I could name them all.
In the 40's a new type of comic book started to come out printed by such publishers as DELL and KING etc.
Which gave the comics a new look that brought about a golden age of comics which started more action filled comics being published like BATMAN and SUPERMAN and so on.
From then on comics keeped being published in all places across the globe but it was clear the USA had more popular titles then anywhere else.
The British keep publishing with titles of COMMANDO but even they had to change to add American comics to there own.
From the 30's on the comic books where more heavily published and the amount of titles just grew to so many that no one person could own them all.
In the 1990's we saw a change in comic books as they made them with richer paper and much more glossy pages.
New titles keep coming to the shelves but most of the old ones as still the most popular.
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