Sentences with phrase «very first comic books»

Back in the 1930s, the very first comic books were collections of newspaper comics.

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As Jamil Smith writes for Time, the character of the Black Panther — the first black comic - book superhero — was created in 1966 during the civil - rights movement and very much represented «a vision of black grandeur and, indeed, power in a trying time.»

Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was an affectionate return and tribute to the early days of Saturday morning matinees and cinema, with comic - book archaeology hero Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) battling the Nazis while searching for the sacred Ark of the Covenant - the first in a very successful trilogy of films.

on the PlayStation Vita the first time around or you're pining for an interesting action - adventure exclusive on PlayStation 4, give the remastered version a fair go — you'll most likely find the same thing I did: an endearing, very unique gravity - bending adventure with a charming comic book aesthetic, satisfying semi-open world exploration and a sensational sense of adventure.

If you missed Gravity Rush on the PlayStation Vita the first time around or you're pining for an interesting action - adventure exclusive on PlayStation 4, give the remastered version a fair go — you'll most likely find the same thing I did: an endearing, very unique gravity - bending adventure with a charming comic book aesthetic, satisfying semi-open world exploration and a sensational sense of adventure.

However, this disc is worth opening up in a DVD - ROM, at the very least for the first edition AVP comic book.

As well, the package offers an exclusive collectible 72 - page comic book containing Detective Comics # 27 (the very first Batman story), Batman: The Man Who Falls (a classic story that inspired Batman Begins), and an excerpt from Batman: The Long Halloween (a chilling story that also inspired the film).

Marvel Legacy # 1 hits comic book stores this coming Wednesday, and we've got a preview of the hotly - anticipated issue, which features the very first incarnation of Earth's Mightiest Heroes — the 1,000,000 BC Avengers!

Flash - forward to 1963 (an homage to the year the first X-Men comic book was released) and Charles (James McAvoy) and Erik (Michael Fassbender) are two young men on very different paths.

He plays the character Wong in this comic book adaptation and shares the first name as the film's lead actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, which must make things very confusing on set.

Even if this weren't clear, the very first scene establishes a world of comic - book exaggeration and formal abstraction; it's set in a raucous club ablaze with syncopated strobe lights and the announcement «Welcome to Hell.»

In the 1940s, the golden age of comic books, Chu Hing, a little - known Chinese American cartoonist — very likely the first ever — created the Green Turtle, a superhero tasked with protecting China from invading Japanese forces.

And those of you who don't like Amazon, they own very, very little of the sales market compared to the old American News Company, that basically controlled all magazine, most comics, and most book distribution in this country in the first half of last century.

The site Sharman links to has a number of other comics visible on the page, including the first two issues of Heroes: 9 to 5 — Quietus, the very book he wants readers to buy.

Studios) is her first foray into the comic book world, and it has been very well received.

Yet the fact remains that for someone to discover a comic book today for the first time, he or she pretty much has to be a comic book reader already, or know someone who's a reader, and he or she has to be comfortable immersing themselves immediately in a very specific sub-cultural experience by stepping through the doors of a comic book specialty shop.

Fans can get a taste of the original PopoloCrois Story comic book series in English for the very first time at the game's official website, located at http://www.returntopopolocrois.com/.