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The first American edition of Shonen Jump, dated January 2003, is released the preceding December. This 288-page digest of Japanese comic books, or manga, includes installments of Yu-Gi-Oh! and One Piece.

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2001 - Pearls before swine begins in newspapers

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2001 - Pearls before swine begins in newspapers

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Pearls Before Swine, which has been published on the Web since 1999, begins appearing in newspapers on December 31. The strip, written by Stephan Pastis, features Pig, Rat, Zebra, Goat, and The Fraternity of Crocodiles. The characters are aware that they're in a comic strip, one which often parodies other strips and the medium itself. The simplistic art style plays off a quickwitted and quirky comic sensibility.

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Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman begin Zits, a strip about the family and friends of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan. It makes frequent use of surreal imagery reflecting and exaggerating characters' points of view.

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Stone Soup began it's own comic series. Jan Eliot's strip is one of the few to be centered around a single mother, Val Stone. A widow and full-time worker, Val has two children, Holly and Alix (aged 13 and 9).

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Baby Blues debuts with the birth of Zoe MacPherson to parents Wanda and Darryl. The comic strip, about the ups and downs of child-rearing, is written by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott. Characters in the strip age one year for every two or three that pass in real life

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Neil Gaiman begins The Sandman, published by DC Comics

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FoxTrot, Bill Amend's comic strip about the Fox family, begins.

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1985 - Calvin and Hobbes begins in newspapers

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1985 - Calvin and Hobbes begins in newspapers

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Calvin and Hobbes, the adventures of an imaginative boy and his stuffed tiger, begins its daily newspaper run

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1980 - Bloom County begins in newspapers

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1980 - Bloom County begins in newspapers

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Bloom County begins in December. While modeled on Doonesbury to some extent, the strip has a wackier tone and includes talking animals. Its two most famous characters are Opus the penguin and Bill the Cat

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Garfield begins his long nap in the nation's newspapers. The strip becomes one of the most widely syndicated—and merchandised—of all time.

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Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury begins appearing in daily newspapers, the first strip to be carried by Universal Press Syndicate. The strip combines the ongoing stories of various characters aging in real time with political satire, and would become the first comic strip to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

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In the DC universe, the Teen Titans makes its first appearance, consisting of Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin, and Wonder Girl.

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In the Marvel universe, scientist (Dr.)Bruce Banner was

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In the Marvel universe, average student Peter Parker gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider, giving him spider-like powers, web shooters, and super climbing abilities.

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1961 - Marvel's (Stan Lee's) fantastic four first comic.

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1961 - Marvel's (Stan Lee's) fantastic four first comic.

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Marvel presents Stan Lee's the Fantastic Four, a superhero group consisting of Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Girl, The Thing, and The Human Torch. Unusually, the team members didn't hide their real identities (Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Ben Grimm, and Johnny Storm)

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DC Comics introduces Supergirl, cousin of Superman.

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In response to public and Congressional objections to comic books featuring tales of crime and horror, the Comics Code Authority is created.

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Casper, the Friendly Ghost, gets his own comic book. He'd been introduced in a cartoon in 1945

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Walt Kelly starts the daily Pogo comic strip. The Pogo Possum character had been introduced in the first issue of Animal comics comic book in 1941, but gained fame for his topical political humour in the newspaper strips.

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DC introduces Wonder Woman, designed by psychiatrist William Marston.

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The star of the strip is a redheaded reporter who often visits exotic places. It's notable for being created by a woman, Dale Messick

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In what is now known as the "Marvel universe", Steve Rogers, regular if not is given super-soldier serum and a mighty shield, becoming Captain America.

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Timely Comics releases Marvel Comics, including Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner and several other heroes. Timely was eventually renamed Marvel.

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"The Bat-Man" makes his first appearance in Detective Comics. Unlike Superman, Batman has no powers; he fights crime using martial arts, technology, and his mind.

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Action Comics makes its first appearance, and features the first superhero ever: Superman. He can run faster than a train, leap over tall buildings, and block bullets with his chest, but isn't yet able to fly. The character is a hit, and many more superhero comics follow.

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The first issue of Detective Comics is released
by the company that will eventually be named
DC Comics. (DC is an abbreviation for "Detective Comics.")

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Winnie Winkle debuts, chronicling the tales of a woman working
to support her family. While not the first comic to feature a
working woman, it is the first to gain widespread attention.
It lasted until 1996.

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Little Nemo in Slumberland, by Winsor McCay, begins running in the New York Herald. The first comic with a continuing story, it is still noted as one
of the most richly illustrated comic strips of all time.

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Rudolph Dirks's 'The Katzenjammer Kids' appears for
the first time in the New York Journal on December 12.
It stars a set of twin brothers, Hans and Fritz, and is the
first strip to tell a story in a series of panels. It is still
running today, as the oldest strip in syndication.

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In the early 1970s a surge of creativity emerged in what
became known as underground comics. Published and
distributed independently of the established comics
industry, most of such comics reflected the youth
counterculture and drug culture of the time

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Used to make men feel patriotic and sign up for the National Guard.

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Used in war times to manipulate the audience to particular beliefs and attitudes.

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The Yellow Kid is the name of the main character of a comic strip series that is thought to be the first series to be printed in American newspapers. It was first featured in the New York World, and later the New York Journal.

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Published in America, 1933, Famous Funnies was the first comic book to ever be printed. It was a collection of the best comic strips printed in newspapers. Prior to this, comic strips were only seen in newspapers.