comic books
Superhero story format
Comic books are periodical publications that tell stories primarily through sequential illustrated panels, typically with text in speech balloons and captions.
The term usually refers to American-style magazines featuring superheroes, though the format encompasses every genre from horror to romance to memoir.
He has boxes of comic books in his basement.
The medium has gained literary respectability, with serious works often rebranded as graphic novels.
- action figuresJointed miniature character toys
- superheroPowered champion against evil
- mangaJapanese comic medium
- funniesNewspaper cartoon section
- WednesdayFourth weekday
splash page · thought bubble · inker · cartoons · panel · marvel · fiction · penciler · colorist · video games · retcon · periodicals · trading cards · Batman · pow · caricatures · DC · golden age
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, paperback, hardcover
- comicspanel, graphic novel, cartoon, webcomic, panels
- illustrationpainting, drawing, watercolor, sketch, charcoal
- entertainment historyvaudeville, silent films, talkies, Hollywood, movie palaces
- Illustrated Storiesfairy tales, fables, picture books, manga, storybooks
- old mediabooks, radio, newspaper, newspapers, television
comic booksnovels
Extended prose fiction
chapter books · textbooks · literary fiction · essays · poetry collections
book, comic, comical, comics, comic strip, comically, comic book, comicalness, comic strips