Notable events of 1972 in comics. Marvel Comics forms their British publishing arm, Marvel UK (under the corporate name Magazine Management London Ltd...
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Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American...
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a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Silver Surfer #3 (December 1968)...
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was founded in 1939 by Martin Goodman as Timely Comics, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas Comics. The Marvel era began in August 1961 with...
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superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Astonishing Tales #6 in 1971 as a supporting...
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Comics are a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically takes the form of a sequence...
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television series based on DC Comics publications List of unproduced DC Comics projects List of television series based on Marvel Comics publications List of unproduced...
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Wonder Man (redirect from Wonder Man (comics))
appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby, he first appeared in The Avengers...
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July 1972). The Sunday strip also turned to reprints after May 19, 2002. Both strips continue as reprints today in a few newspapers and in Comics Revue...
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Jennifer Kale (category Comics characters introduced in 1972)
appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Rich Buckler, the character first appeared in Adventure...
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Underground comix (redirect from Underground comics)
relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority,...
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Spire Christian Comics was a line of comic books published by Fleming H. Revell starting in 1972. In the 1980s, Barbour & Company, founded by Hugh Revell...
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Female Furies (redirect from Speed Queen (comics))
are a group of women warriors and supervillains appearing in comics published by DC Comics. All of them are New Gods who serve Darkseid. They operate...
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Heroes, a 1960s animated television series The Mighty World of Marvel, a 1972 UK comics series which was renamed Marvel Superheroes from 1979 to 1983 Lego Marvel...
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1972 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1972. 1972 (MCMLXXII)...
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published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955 created by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. The magazine began in March 1947 as International Comics. It continued...
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books especially in DC Comics and Marvel Comics. The first adaptation of Merlin first appeared in a King Arthur-based comic book story in the anthology comic...
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Pre-1930s Before 1900s in comics 1900s in comics - debut: Happy Hooligan, Little Jimmy, Little Nemo in Slumberland 1910s in comics - debut: Krazy Kat, Polly...
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Night Nurse is a comic-book series published by Marvel Comics in the early 1970s. Linda Carter, one of the series' three central characters, previously...
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comics anthology collects works in the medium of comics, typically from multiple series, and compiles them into an anthology or magazine. The comics in...
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Fritz the Cat (category 1972 comics endings)
Comics (Golden Gate Publishing, Sept. 1972). Michael O'Donoghue and Randall Enos, "Fritz the Star in 'Kitty Glitter,'" National Lampoon (January 1972)...
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The People's Comics is a single-issue underground comic book drawn and written largely by Robert Crumb, with a young Harvey Pekar writing a back cover...
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Phantom Rider (redirect from Night Rider (comics))
several Old West heroic gunfighter characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was originally called Ghost Rider,...
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Patsy Walker (redirect from Hellcat (comics))
superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stuart Little and Ruth Atkinson, Patsy Walker first appeared in Miss America...
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operated from 1962 to 1984. Gold Key Comics was created in 1962, when its parent, Western Publishing Company, switched to in-house publishing rather than packaging...
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National Comics Publications (NCP; later known as National Periodical Publications Inc. or simply National) was an American comic book publishing company...
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Elric of Melniboné (redirect from Elric (comics))
better known characters in fantasy literature, having crossed over into a wide variety of media, such as role-playing games, comics, music, and film. The...
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Marvel Family (redirect from Chain Lightning (comics))
in 1953 and DC's revival in 1972, DC Comics is today unable to promote and market Captain Marvel under that name. Since 1972, DC has instead used the...
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character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Marvel Spotlight #5 (May 1972) and was created by...
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become Marvel Comics. Founded in 1939, during the era called the Golden Age of comic books, "Timely" was the umbrella name for the comics division of pulp...
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