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"A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a funny book, comic paper or comic magazine) is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book artform) and often including brief descriptive prose. The first comic book appeared in the United States of America in 1934, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips, which established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips, but despite their name, comic books do not necessarily operate in humorous mode; most modern comic books tell stories in a variety of genres. The Japanese and European comic book markets demonstrate this clearly. In the United States the super-hero genre dominates the market, even though other genres also exist . . . Rarest American comic books—The rarest¹ comic books include copies of the unreleased Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 from 1939. Eight copies, plus one without a cover, emerged in the estate of the deceased publisher in 1974. Before Fawcett Comics introduced Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics #2, an earlier ashcan edition featured virtually the same story, but with the Captain Marvel character named Captain Thunder. This issue was never distributed. In June 1978, DC Comics cancelled several of its titles. For copyright purposes the company then photocopied and bound the unpublished original art for these titles and published it as Cancelled Comics Cavalcade #1–2 in an edition of only 35 copies. Misprints, promotional comic-dealer incentive printings, and similar issues with extremely low distribution also generally have scarcity value. The rarest modern comic books include the original press run of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #5, which DC executive Paul Levitz ordered recalled and pulped over the appearance of a vintage Victorian era advertisement for Marvel Douche, which the publisher considered offensive; only 100 copies are thought to exist, most of which have been CGC graded . . ." — Comic book at Wikipedia. This version was edited and (or) revised by Mintmark.com
¹A record price for a comic book was set during March 2010. Action Comics #1 (see above), which features Superman's debut, sold for $1.5 million (it previously sold in February for $1 million; read the article).
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