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Comic book, a real comic book, was born in the 20th century10s. It is the product of the combination of two literary forms: popular literary publications and newspaper cartoons. Before that, comic books were mainly serialized in newspapers, called strip. Affected by the way newspapers are distributed, strip usually serializes one line every day (the length will be longer on Sundays), and its narrative technique is relatively fixed.

Comic books have a variety of contents and styles. In addition to the well-known humorous "four-grid comics", there are also detective and action themes. Many well-received four-grid comics originated from popular novels or drew a lot of inspiration from them. One of the representatives is Mount Tai, which is adapted from the novel of the same name. Although its plot is not original, this kind of comics has made great progress in drama compared with simple humorous cartoons.

1929 the economic crisis and the great depression have brought special opportunities to comics. In addition to humor and humor, readers' rising crime rate and helplessness to reality make people expect stronger and more dominant figures to appear and reverse all this. He will be strong, invincible and invincible; He will uphold justice, sweep away evil in the world and bring hope to the world. In short, people are calling for heroes. Thus, in 193 1 year, the detective comic "Dick Tracy" was born, shaping a typical "tough guy" private detective.

1930, the protagonist in the phantom wears tights and masks, and has a secret identity-unfortunately, he has no super powers, but these characteristics inspired many later authors and became the predecessor of superheroes. Publishers republished these serials in newspapers, which were welcomed by people.

Since the birth of the first comic book "Famous Comics" released by 1933, many famous comic characters serialized in newspapers have entered comic publications one after another. Including "Popular Comics" by Dick Tracy, "Tarzan of the Apes" by Tarzan (Snoopy also appeared in this publication), "King Comics" by Popeye and so on.

1938, the editor of DC noticed the "superman" in the manuscript when digging comic books. He found his boss at that time, M. C. Gaines (later Gaines created another EC cartoon), and he liked it very much, hoping to publish it-then they found that Superman's author was already their own employee.

DC immediately started editing and changed the story from the original comic book form to the comic book form. Suddenly, scissors and glue Qi Fei, ink * * * white oil color, some frames were deleted, and the plot was shortened to 13 pages. Please assign someone to add color to this work (most other stories in the book are still in black and white), and add the words "action cartoon" on the cover-this cartoon was born, which also declared that this repeatedly rejected idea became the first in the world.

There are more than 7000 comic book heroes in America. Superheroes in American comics mainly come from two giant comic companies, one is DC and the other is Marvel Comics. DC Comics Company is one of the most powerful and oldest comic companies in the United States, founded in 1935. There are more than 5,000 comic book heroes in Marvel Comics, founded in 1939.

Other comic companies, such as Image, Dark Horse and Dingniu, also have comic heroes, mainly talking about the comic characters of the two companies, and the characters of these two companies usually appear in teams, so I write the characters of each comic company as a team.

DC Comics (DC Comics Company, the largest comic company in the world).

Marvel Comics (Marvel Comics, the second largest comic company in the world).

Dark Horse (Dark Horse Comics Company, the third largest comic company in the world) D.C Comics Company is one of the largest comic companies in the world. The full name is Detective Comics, an American comic publishing company. Together with Marvel Comics, it is the two largest comic companies in the United States. The classic characters in DC comics are Superman, Batman, wonder woman, The Flash, The Green Lantern, and the Justice League which combines the above characters.

DC Comics was founded in 1934, then named as National United Publishing Company. The name of DC comics comes from the best-selling comic book Detective Comics during the period of United Publishing Company of the United States. This comic book company changed its name several times and changed its name to DC Comics on 1967, which is still in use today. DC Comics is headquartered in new york, New York. 1969 was acquired by time warner Inc. Group, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment. The general books published by DC comics are published by Random House Publishing Company. Comic books are distributed by the diamond distribution company.