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While the form originated in , American comic books first gained popularity after the publication of Action Comics, which included the debut of the superhero Superman. This was followed by a superhero boom that lasted until the end of World War II. After the war, while superheroes were marginalized, the comic book industry rapidly expanded, and genres such as horror, crime, science fiction and romance became popular. The s saw a gradual decline, due to a shift away from print media in the wake of television[1] and the impact of the Comics Code Authority.

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A comic book or comicbook,[1] also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the s.

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The elder Gaines tested the idea of packaging and selling comics on newsstands in Cover art by Jack Cole Born in New Castle, Pennsylvania,[4] Cole—the third of six children of a dry goods-store owner and amateur-entertainer father and a former elementary school-teacher mother—was untrained in art except for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course.

At age 17, he bicycled solo cross-country to Los Angeles, California and back. Cole recounted this adventure in an early self-illustrated professional sale "A Boy and His Bike" which has often been cited as appearing in Boys' Life magazine, but in fact the source of this article is unknown, but speculated to have likely appeared in Cole's hom Publication of comic strips and comic books focusing on science fiction became increasingly common during the early s in newspapers published in the United States.

They have since spread to many countries around the world. History The first science-fiction comic was the gag cartoon Mr. Skygack, from Mars by A. Condo, which debuted in newspapers in This influence spread to comic books, in which science-fiction themes became increasingly more popular; one notable title was Planet Comics. With the introduction of Superman, the superhero genre was born, which often included science-fiction elements. In the s, EC Comics had great success and popularity in publishing science-fiction comics of increasing complexity. Fantasy comics have been around as long as the medium itself.

Starting in the late s through the mids horror-themed fantasy anthologies gained prominence; the most famous of these include EC Comics' Tales from the Crypt, Haunt of Fear, and Vault of Horror; and lesser notable titles such as American Comics Group Adventures into the Unknown and Forbidden Worlds though this trend saw its prevalence cease with the publication of Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent which directly led to a Senate hearing of the influence of comics on juvenile violence.

Though fantasy comics were able to survive in this new atmosphere though in a diminished capacity compared to its much stronger output in these early years. Fantasy-themed super heroes c Ace Magazines[1] was a comic-book and pulp-magazine publishing company headed by Aaron A. Wyn and his wife Rose Wyn. The Wyns had been publishing pulp fiction under the Periodical House and A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers names since , and published comics between and the end of Its most successful and longest-running superhero title was Super-Mystery Comics featuring Magno the Magnetic Man and his boy partner Davey,[2]who appeared in 28 issues of the title's issue run.

Horror comics included Baffling Mysteries, Hand of Fate and Web of Mystery, while their contribution to the crime comics was Crime Must Pay the Penalty the title later shortened to Penalty for the final two issues. Ace's longest running series were the company's romance comics Glamorous Romances, Love At First Sight, Love Experiences and Real Love, which began in the late s as the superhero books faded away, and continued until the company ceased publishing comic books in Other long running romance titles such as Seduction of the Innocent.

Witty, professor of education at Northwestern University, has well described these comics when he said that they "present our world in a kind of Fascist setting of violence and hate and destruction. I think it is bad for children," he goes on, "to get that kind of recurring diet Therefore the democratic ideals that we should seek are likely to be overlooked. A Journal of History. Archived from the original on May 27, Retrieved May 27, Additional May 27, Brooker, Will Batman Unmasked: Retrieved March 6, Still, Hajdu is right to point out that Wertham's ideas of proof were extremely primitive, more forensic than scientific.

Wertham had often testified in court cases, which skewed his sense of evidence. Wertham thought he could prove his point by stringing together many anecdotes collected from his clinical research, making his claims virtually unverifiable. Morales, Thomas February 22, Archived from the original on May 9, Retrieved on May 27, Archived from the original on February 8, Archived from the original on August 28, Marten Toonder ".

Archived from the original on June 30, Het is niet mogelijk tegen de drukkers, uitgevers of verspreiders van deze romans strafrechtelijk op te treden, terwijl evenmin iets kan worden bereikt door geen papier beschikbaar te stellen aangezien het voor deze uitgaven benodigde papier op de vrije markt verkrijgbaar is. Archived from the original on September 15, Seduction of the Innocent topic Seduction of the Innocent is a book by American psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, published in , that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.

Member feedback about Seduction of the Innocent: Member feedback about Fredric Wertham: German emigrants to the United States Revolvy Brain revolvybrain. Crime comics topic Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction. Member feedback about Crime comics: Comics genres Revolvy Brain revolvybrain. Unfortunately, I knew what happened by page It was a good read, but not great. Had the middle of the book paced as well as the first pages, it would have been great, but the isolation, though authentic, had limited opportunities for characters and plot twists.

You can only do so much with running a car into and out of a small coastal town. The killer is anticlimactic, but the rest is good. The book is certainly well above the usual crop of new authors. Ms Miley is a former history professor at the U of V, and worked at Williamsburg, so she has a sound background for the kind of research into vaudeville and period settings here and it shows to great advantage. Enjoyable and you can speed read the middle.

I bought the second book in the series set in early Hollywood. Looking forward to it. One Potion in the Grave is book two of the Potion series and as enjoyable as book 1. Katie Sue cared for grandfather and younger sister when her Momma moved out and her sister married and left. Turns out, granddad was a shrewd investor and his estate was several million dollars. And her cousin, with whom she has the beginnings of a relationship, Delia, stops in.

With verve and lively characters, Ms Blake keeps the story rolling and Carly involved in investigating her death. When the younger sister she tried to gain custody of lands in the hospital on life support, she starts to look at who benefits ……….. The answers were given away to any mystery fan in a scene well before the big denouement. One Potion in the Grave is a good paranormal cozy read.

Ms Blake writes well, but I like this setting and group of characters more than her Wishcraft books set in Massachusetts. I give One Potion a B- 3. The series deserves more fans than it has garnered so far. Like most cozies, an easy, fast read, but with much better than average plot and characters. Georgia Thackery, adjunct professor at the local college reluctantly agrees. Then Madison does what too many teens do. Mother and daughter go back, but no answers their banging and they leave Sid for the night. And what a night it was. Sid overheard a murder. The fun begins when Georgia gives in and allows Sid to investigate.

Then it seems an unrelated natural death from pancreatic cancer of fellow college adjunct seems to somehow be related. Soon, strange letters from a foundation that has to internet presence or apparent records starts cropping up all over. Then the two start tying back to a powerful local politician. The book moves along quickly and Sid is by turns funny and occasionally a drama queen. He certainly has a personality. Funny and a bit fluffy, but kind of what a cozy should be. Try and get it cheaper.

It remains one of my favorite humor books and the more you know his works, the funnier it is. Available used, but not as an ebook. I purchased this from The Book Depository in the UK, a company started by a former Amazon employee and now owned by them. They have free worldwide shipping via media mail, but waiting 10 to 2 weeks beats waiting 10 months for the US publisher. The book opens with the brutal torture killing of an undercover policeman that Bruno knew well.

The manner of his death takes him back to years he served in the French military in Algeria and later in Sarajevo. Such brutality seems so out of place in the bucolic French countryside where the grape harvest is starting and people still largely in the old way. But the world stops for no one, as Bruno well knows, and all he can do for his colleague now is find the killer. This book introduces a new love interest for Bruno, an American, and like all his love interests, she is badly injured.

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But the mystery is darker and more gruesome than the early books and it deals with a less than stellar bit of French history in North Africa. Even worse, the bad guy is smart and lives. This little patch of bucolic French countryside does seem to have the highest violent crime rate outside St Mary Mead where Miss Marple lived. Unfortunately, this entry in the really good series was a little too dark to be enjoyable. When juxtapositioned with the country village life in St Denis, well, it was hard to understand how anyone could compartmentalize to the extent that Bruno did. Still, the nature of the crime is what drives everything that comes after, so it was essential to the plot.

Mixing ordinary village life with the plague of fighting off the encroachment of the larger world, the simple pleasures of living against the greater backdrop of violence and dark deeds. As usual, an ongoing character has a secret in her past that gets revealed and dealt with by the truly evil man at the center of all this, as does another issue, again tied to this man, tying up the seeming disparate sub-plots. Children of War gets a B- 3.

A good mystery, but far more in the noir genre than traditional mystery. Will I buy his next book? Yes, but if he continues down this grim path, I might hesitate on future ones. My copy has moved on to someone in PBS through a swap. Mostly, Bruno fans are women and this book was not aimed to please those readers. I find I can only do so many series before my head explodes. Honestly, authors resurrect characters and series, like soap operas, recycle characters. There are so many epic fantasy series out there, some starting life as a stand alone — or as an outgrowth of early works where and author developed ideas.

Dune was such as book. I recall how blown away I was by it when I read back when it first came out. It would take 5 more years for book 4 and 3 more for book 5 and then book 6 followed and was the last. Now his son, Brian, along with Kevin Anderson, have continued Dune stories as prequels and sequels to the original series. The unique universal appeal of Dune is surprising.

But to put that in context, the Harry Potter series sold over million copies and Lord help us Fifty Shades of Gray eclipsed that number at over million. Of course Dune, Harry Potter, and many other books will still be popular long after Fifty Shades is lost in time. Will most of the series so beloved of readers stand the test of time?

So is everything by Tolkien. But those ARE classics. Like The Hobbit, Harry will age well. Some experiences just continue to resonate over time, long after the cheap, voyeuristic thrills of Fifty Shades has been supplanted by the next hot item. Which segues nicely into another niche market, erotic paranormal romance and futuristic paranormal romance.

She writes modern shifter romance as Madeline Montague. Si-fi and fantasy are no strangers to sex. Boy, did you earn it! All are light-years better than E. Hill living — Vampire Queen series now up to book 13, future status unknown, paranormal vampire erotic romance. Hill writes mostly in the BDSM vein, but does some more mainstream series, and stand alones in paranormal, historical, and contemporary genres; Arcane Shot series centers on witches 2 books so far , and she has a paranormal romance series based on mermaids.

Hard to find author. Lara Santiago living — small press author; two futuristic stand alones — one intended as a possible series that never happened, Menagerie -is a clever apparently poly-amorous story that begins and ends in present day. Reads like the start of a series, but she went from futuristic to Western. Veronica Roth living — Divergent trilogy — 3 books plus numbers short stories, novellas, complete, YA si-fi Dystopian; kind of a Hunger Games knock-off with shades of Twilight Zone.

Pittacus Lore living — Lorien Legacies 5 books but on-going to 9? Linda Robertson living — Persephone Alcmedi — 6 books so far and 1 more due this year. UF, witches, vamps, weres, Fey. Young witch finds she might be one that was in a prophesy, making her a target for her coven and the only one that change the outcome of a potential war.

Watch for more from her. If anyone has any comments on this series. So for those who hate waiting, you now have a place to start. Anyone wants me to add a series they really liked, just post a comment. I review them all. Yes, I have books for my family, I always do. And the complete set of Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. Some things are predictable. Various characters from earlier books put in cameo appearances and a number of Irish gods.

Lief shows up scheming again, and the Morrigan, but this is mostly the Atticus and Grabuaile show with the wonderful Oberon along offering comments that can crack the reader up. Not his best, but a very entertaining read and a solid B 3. She lives with her artist aunt in Deadwood, SD in an effort to start a new life as a realtor. Being new to real estate in a down economy has been slow going, but her boss Jane has given her an ultimatum, sell a house within the month or lose her job. The condescending jerk male agent, Ray, makes her life a misery in his all out, underhanded effort to get his nephew hired for her job.

Mona is the other agent and hates Ray as much as Violet does. His nephew is the humorless police detective that keeps running into Violet. If you like the Steph Plum series, give this a try. The Sturgis motorcycle rally, the largest in the US, brings lots of business into Deadwood, SD, including a couple interested in buying a house.

Well, it so happens that Violet agreed to list a house where a murder happened — a house no other agency would touch. The house is in the neighboring town of Lead and turns out to be a real charmer. She got his listing with the caveat she takes to one meal a weel. Thing is, sleazy Ray Underhill, wants nothing more than Violet out and his nephew in. Her failure will be his opening. So Violet once again must get a haunted house sold and solve a murder to save her job. Try getting the print used, though the used prices on Amazon are still high when including shipping. Tough to beat free. He wants to buy a haunted hotel, but before he does, he has to be sure there are ghosts, and that means a seance, one Violet MUST attend.

It ends in the appearance of a demon that scares the spit out of Violet. Even worse, her client maintains that claims Violet is kind of a ghost magnet, a natural channeler for spirits. Problem is, Violet wants him …….. In the middle of all this, Violet has the contact to sell the house of the very uptight police detective. The is a whole subplot involving the local funeral home and Ray moving caskets — and Nat and Violet getting caught spying on the two brothers who own and operate the business.

Vampires get mentioned and once again, the demon that appeared in Optical Delusions returns in larger part here. The problem here is Ms Charles has so many story lines going at once, the plot gets a bit garbled at times. Still, it had good entertainment value despite shifting even more to the dark side with supposed demon cultists and human sacrifice.

The ending has several layers, and a final shocker with Jane, the agency owner. There is more sex in this book than usual for the genre, so keep that in mind if there are younger readers. Dead Case in Deadwood was a good read, but was getting a much darker tone from book 1. It still earns a B- 3. Not worth the price of the print books.

Too high for this series. This series follows more in in the paranormal romance genre. Nothing like a little quality smut by Eve Langlis! In the meantime, everyone have a great Christmas holiday! For the first time in awhile, I read some erotic romance. With so many of the ebook authors moving from small press publishers to major print houses, I ended up trying 3 new to me authors at Siren.

With what I did buy, the results were not encouraging. In print, yet another anthology came up, meh! I know, the title should have been a dead give away. I bought it anyway. Actually, it was the pick of the litter, even though the shopworn plot has one used so many times, by so many authors, it embodied trite.

The sex was OK, but not really pulse racing. Remind me not to do reading Challenges in the future. It always happens when I get a work surge. In the first two books, Dragon Actually and About a Dragon , the author builds a world where various species of dragon exist side-by-side with humans, who are often seen by the dragons as a food source.

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