Friday, May 4, 2012

Free Comic Book Day

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 5th is Free Comic Book Day. It is a day when participating comic book stores give free comics to people who come into their stores.

You will need to check with your local comic book shops to see if they are participating and, if so, what their rules are.

Sounds like a neat way to encourage new comic book fans. Believe it or not this graphic pieces of work have an amazing history. The first known prototype of a comic book was The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, published in 1842. The first known full-color comic book was The Blackberries, published in 1901. Did you know that the superhero archetype did not show up until the 1930s?

Here is a quick trivia question. As what was Marvel Comics originally known?

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