" When Li ' l Abner made its debut in 1934, the vast majority of comic strips were designed chiefly to amuse or thrill their readers.

When most people think of a superhero or a comic book celebrity, Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman will usually be the first that comes to mind.

When it was first published, Don Quixote was usually interpreted as a comic novel.

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

When no more reproducible material was available in 2001, Per Sanderhage, the editor of the Danish comic strip agency PIB, negotiated a deal where Ferd ’ nand cartoonist Henrik Rehr would redraw 32 pages loosely based on old magazine clippings for the annual.

When M. Night Shyamalan first conceived the idea for Unbreakable, the outline originally had a comic book's traditional three-part structure ( the superhero's " birth ", his or her struggles against general evil-doers, and the hero's ultimate battle against the " archenemy ").

In issue 160, a genuine advert appeared promoting his latest DVD with the tagline " When he's not doing corporate gigs, Jimmy Carr is a stand-up comic ".

When the San Francisco Chronicle canceled Zippy briefly in 2002, the newspaper received thousands of letters of protest, including one from Robert Crumb, who called Zippy " by far the very best daily comic strip that exists in America.

When it was performed in Paris in 1752, it prompted the so-called Querelle des Bouffons (" quarrel of the comic actors ") between supporters of serious French opera by the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau and supporters of new Italian comic opera.

In 1991, Epic Comics published a four-issue comic book adaptation of seven of the stories: " Ill Met in Lankhmar " ( issue 1 ), " The Circle Curse " and " The Howling Tower " ( issue 2 ), " The Price of Pain Ease " and " Bazaar of the Bizarre " ( issue 3 ), and " Lean Times in Lankhmar " and " When the Sea King's Away " ( issue 4 ).

He went on to play the organist in When We Are Married and by his third role, the chauffeur Charles in Miranda, Barker realised he wanted to be a comic actor.

When Eega Beeva was still featured in the American comic strips, he made his first appearance in an Italian Disney comic.

When the first American Eega comic strips appeared in Italy, however, translators unaccountably turned Eega into a man from 2000 rather than 2447.

When the company began producing comic books in autumn 1939, Beck was assigned to draw a character created by writer Bill Parker called " Captain Thunder ".

When it received a grade of B +, Maggin disagreed with the assessment, remade it as a comic book script, and sent his script to DC Comics.

When Shadow rights holder Condé Nast increased its licensing fee, DC concluded the series after 31 issues and one annual ; it became the longest running Shadow comic series since Street and Smith's original 1940s series.

When that company merged with DC Comics in 1944, Gaines retained rights to the comic book Picture Stories from the Bible, and began his new company with a plan to market comics about science, history and the Bible to schools and churches.

When Davis attempted to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate, an editor told him, " Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs — nobody can relate to bugs!

Issue # 29 " When It Blows Its Stacks "-" thanks to Ross Andru ," specifically the 1976 comic Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man

When converting the comic book to a novel originally in hardcover, Spillane wrote the work in nine days in some accounts, nineteen in other accounts.

When, however, the patricians, in the sixteenth century, withdrew more and more from the plays, the plays, left to the lower classes, began to lose their serious and ( in spite of the comic traits ) dignified character.

: When Brennecke ( in " The Real Mission of the Funny Paper " by Ernest Brennecke, from The Century Magazine, March 1924 ) locates the truth of comic strip realism in the comics ' habit of " commenting trenchantly " on " the life of the middle classes ," it is comics like The Yellow Kid and artists like Willard that he has in mind ...

When Doonesbury ran the names of soldiers who had died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, conservative commentators accused Trudeau of using the American dead to make a profit for himself, and again demanded that the strip be removed from newspapers.

When Nixon left in 1973, Tom Lavery began drawing the strip, who was then followed by Frank McDiarmid in 1976.

When Hearst predictably hired Outcault away, Pulitzer asked artist George Luks to continue the strip with his characters, giving the city two Yellow Kids.

When William Randolph Hearst III took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1985, he offered Griffith an opportunity to do Zippy as a daily strip.

When arrested, Morgan was strip searched.

The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954.

When the red turn-downs were added to the socks in 1904, the strip began to look more like the modern day Rangers home kit.

When the game did finally arrive, the screen remained in the Next Month strip along with a line of text jokingly suggesting that it was stuck there and nobody knew how to remove it.

When the strip started in 1937, Val was five years old.

When Burke and Renville counties were partitioned out of Imperial Ward County, neither wanted to include Kenmare and risk that city becoming the county seat, so Kenmare was left in Ward County at the end of a narrow strip of land.

When O ' Reilly died in 1938, Warren began a strip titled Pecos Pete.

When the strip shifted focus away from Robotman, they stopped appearing.

When Bobby London took over the strip from 1986 to 1992, he added the sultry blonde Sutra Oyl, Olive's cousin.

When we see Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover posing with a strip of microfilm, we know we're watching a newsreel.

When the camera is closed, the pressure plate moves back from the film plane, thus allowing the film strip to move freely to advance to the next frame.

When Willard died suddenly on January 11, 1958, the Tribune Syndicate hired Johnson, who also had a natural gift for funny, slangy dialogue, to helm the strip as Willard's logical successor.

When Beetle joined the Army, all of the other characters are dropped ( although both incarnations of the strip include a spectacled intellectual named Plato ).

He recalled: " When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

When the strip ended, it was carried in only 35 newspapers.

When the film was greatly trimmed by the distributors early on during exhibition, the new version only retained the center strip in order to allow projection in standard single-projector cinemas.