The Katzenjammer Kids characters initially appeared outside of comics in a handful of live-action silent films, the first released in 1898.

" Manga " as a term used outside Japan refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan.

Fictional figures such as Sarutobi Sasuke would eventually make way into comics and television, where they have come to enjoy a culture hero status outside of their original mediums.

Pluto Saves the Ship, a comic book published in 1942, was one of the first Disney comics prepared for publication outside newspaper strips.

Within the Disney comics, Gus is usually shown as living on Grandma Duck's farm outside of Duckburg, where he works as her farmhand.

The annotations trace the countless references to the characters, myths, and events in and outside of the DC universe while making extensive use of Gaiman's scripts for the comics.

In the original Superboy comics, a billboard outside of Smallville greets those driving into and out of town.

By 1955, EC was effectively driven out of business by the backlash, and by the Comics Magazine Association of America This was an industry group that Gaines himself had suggested to the industry in order to insulate themselves from outside censorship, but he soon lost control of the organization to John Goldwater, publisher of the innocuous Archie teenage comics.

An essential author to understand the evolution of Franco-Belgian comics, Franquin is still a source of inspiration for contemporary artists such as Fabrice Tarrin, Yoann, or even outside the realm of comics in such iconoclastic cases as architect and cartoonist Klaus.

The 2002 graphic novel Bizarro Comics is an anthology of short comics by artists of the independent scene handling various DC Comics characters in humoristic tales set outside of any continuity.

The Manga corresponds to the medium of art the artist uses: comics, or Japanese comics, depending on how the term is used inside or outside of Japan.

Many aqualungs have been anachronistically depicted in comics in stories set during World War II, when in reality, at that time period, aqualungs were unknown outside Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his close associates in Toulon in south France.

Groo was one of the first widely successful creator-owned comics, one of the few successful humorous comic books ( outside Archie Comics ) during its time, and one of the longest-running collaborations in comic book history.

Academics far outside the field of comics such as Dominick LaCapra, Linda Hutcheon and Terrence Des Pres took part in the discourse, although few approached Maus who were familiar with comics, largely because of the lack of an academic comics tradition — Maus tended to be approached as Holocaust history or from a film or literary perspective.

Published in the form of a comics " jam ," the book featured an all-star lineup of comics creators as well as a few notable authors from outside the comic book industry, such as Stephen King, George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, and Edward Bryant.

* Krypto's first appearance outside the world of comics was as a companion of Superboy in The Adventures of Superboy, an occasional segment on the 1966 television cartoon The New Adventures of Superman.

Lois & Clark was the second medium ( after the much ignored 1988 Superman animated series produced by Ruby-Spears for CBS ) outside of comics to break tradition and mirror John Byrne's retcon of Superman, which included making Clark Kent more assertive and less of a clumsy oaf.

They also increased Marvel's publication of trade paperbacks, and are credited with sheparding the company from bankruptcy to profit, and with earning positive reviews from within and outside of the comics industry.

While this team was not a direct adaptation of the comic book iteration of the Crime Syndicate, it was the first time a member of the Crime Syndicate ( Owlman ) appeared in any medium outside of the comics.

* Atlas ( comics series ), a comic book series by Dylan Horrocks

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

* Alternative comics, a genre of comic strips and books

* Bug ( comics ), a character in the Marvel comic book series The Micronauts

Many of the comic strips in The Dandy are drawn by the same artists, and crossovers between the two comics also occur occasionally.

Segar's ' Chaplin ' comics would later be collected in 1917 into five books, precursors of the later comic book format.

Some comic strips, such as Doonesbury and The Boondocks, may be printed on the editorial or op-ed page rather than the comics page because of their regular political commentary.

* Cell ( comics ), a Marvel comic book character

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

The first comic book appeared in the United States in 1933, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips, which established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.

Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.

The introduction of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman in 1938 turned comic books into a major industry, and is the start of the Golden Age of comics.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

* Ash ( comics ), Comic book about a superhero firefighter

* Chord ( comics ), a comic book character who is the former mentor of the New Warriors

This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.

* Down ( comics ), a comic book published by Top Cow Productions

Since a comic book shop in his area traded 2 old comics for 1 new, he only had 2 Duck comics left from his sister's collection by the 70s, one of them being The Golden Helmet.

* Freestyle ( comics ) or Jocelyn Davis, a character from the comic book series DV8

* Morpheus ( DC comics ), a moniker for Dream, a fictional god of dreams in the comic book The Sandman

* Magnus, Robot Fighter, a comic book character published by Gold Key and Valiant comics