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Comics Milestones

The turning points of comics publishing and its self-regulation. Belongs here: the publication of Action Comics number 1 and the adoption of the Comics Code Authority. Does not belong here: other print milestones such as a newspaper founding, which belongs to no live milestone group of its own yet and is recorded under this atlas's broader print and news coverage through the organization and concept types instead.

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Era of Emergence
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of comics, Comic books section
Quote, Wikipedia: History of comics, Comic books section
The first modern American-style comic book, Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics (also a reprint collection of newspaper strips), was released in the U.S. in 1933.
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