The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier Incorporated, 1999 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries A thirty-volume encyclopedia covering important world events while providing major new treatments of selected topics in various academic fields. |
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... comics " is also applied to comic books , a carry - over from the cartoon strips from which they developed . A distinctive feature of most comic strips and comic books is the enclosure of the dialogue in " balloons " that seem to emerge ...
... comics " is also applied to comic books , a carry - over from the cartoon strips from which they developed . A distinctive feature of most comic strips and comic books is the enclosure of the dialogue in " balloons " that seem to emerge ...
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... comic strip . Although the comic strip had expanded to include a wide range of nonhumor- ous subject matter - family life , romance , fantasy , science fiction , the West , detective adventures- the name " comics " remained . This ...
... comic strip . Although the comic strip had expanded to include a wide range of nonhumor- ous subject matter - family life , romance , fantasy , science fiction , the West , detective adventures- the name " comics " remained . This ...
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... Comic Authority Code in 1954 , the major anxieties in relation to comic books were allayed . However , in 1967 the Comics Magazine Association warned that an- other flood of comic books featuring horror and other objectionable ...
... Comic Authority Code in 1954 , the major anxieties in relation to comic books were allayed . However , in 1967 the Comics Magazine Association warned that an- other flood of comic books featuring horror and other objectionable ...
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