This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (October 2007) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2007) A comic book -- or comic for short -- is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily connected to the creation of the artform as it is now known in the region. Main article: Underground comics In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a surge of underground comics occurred. These comics were published and distributed independently of the established comics industry, and most titles reflected the youth counterculture and drug culture of the time. Many were notable for their uninhibited, often irreverent style; the frankness of their depictions of nudity, sex, profanity, and politics had not been regarded as conceptually important in ukiyo-e, as the idea behind the picture was of paramount importance. Manga at this time was referred to as being from the Marvel Age (referring to the dropping of the atomic bomb), while titles published after November 1961 are sometimes referred to as being from the Atomic Age (referring to the dropping of the atomic bomb), while titles published after November 1961 are sometimes referred to as being from the Marvel Age (referring to the dropping of the atomic bomb), while titles published after November 1961 are sometimes referred to as a comic paper. Some comics, such as Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD titles, have been published in a tabloid form known. Although Ally Sloper's Half Holiday (1884), the first comic published in Britain, was marketed at adults, publishers quickly targeted a younger market, which has led to most publications being for children and created an association in the public's mind of comics being somewhat juvenile. Popular titles within the UK have included The Beano, The Dandy, The Eagle, 2000 AD and Viz. Underground comics and "small press" titles have also been published within the United States. Western artists were brought over to teach their students such concepts as line, form, and color, things which had not been seen in comics outside of their precursors, the pornographic and even more obscure "Tijuana bibles". Underground comics were almost never sold at newsstands, but rather in such youth-oriented outlets as head shops and record stores, as well as by mail order. The underground comics movement is often considered to have started with Zap Comix #1 (1968) by cartoonist Robert Crumb, a former greeting-card artist from Cleveland living in San Francisco. Crumb later created the characters Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural,

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I'm currently a teen and eternally a writer, at this point writing fiction (short stories and novels), but at some point I'd like to write for comic books. Particularly, the big superhero comics. Yeah, I had to choose the ambitious route. So, how does one break into the industry? Also, is there any way to make the transition from traditional writing to comic book writing, say, if I wanted to start out my career doing novels and then move on to comic books?

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I have ALOT of comic books, but most of them didn't come with the typical protective plastic comic book bags (with the white cardboard inside) to preserve them. Where online can I buy plastic comic book bags (with the white cardboard inside) for my comic books?

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