superhero comic

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superhero
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsuː.pəˌhɪə.rəʊ/us
/ˈsuː.pɚˌhɪr.oʊ/
a character in a film or story who has special strength and uses it to do good things and help ...
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comic
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒm.ɪk/us
/ˈkɑː.mɪk/
a magazine or book that contains a set of stories told in pictures with a small amount ...
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(Definition ofsuperheroandcomicfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Superherocomicbooks had been filled with bodybuilding ads since the 1960s.
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All that remained were faint, inaccurate memories, which were the cause ofsuperherocomicbooks and other media.
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Between 1950 and 1952 all attempts at publishing newsuperherocomicbooks were in vain.
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Much of his early reading also came from magazines and books, and he showed an interest insuperherocomicbooks as well.
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Sprites and backgrounds possess the bright colours and dynamic drawing style favoured by superhero comics.
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In superhero comics and other stories with a heroic central character, the audience surrogate is often the sidekick of the hero.
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Romance comics sold well, and affected the sales of both superhero comics and confession magazines.
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His series was cancelled in 1949 during a general decline in the popularity of superhero comics.
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He has worked in genres ranging from underground comix to children's books to superhero comics.
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It focused on the characters behind the superpowers and their lives rather than missions or action-oriented conflicts seen in most superhero comics.
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This parodied the eighties trend toward grim and gritty superhero comics.
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Comic books, particularly superhero comics, gained immense popularity during the war as cheap, portable, easily read tales of good triumphing over evil.
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Superhero comics aren't adult, but they shouldn't be written for five-year-olds either.
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He read and tried to draw in the style of superhero comics until junior high and high school.
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The technique is so common in superhero comics that the term comic book death has been coined for it.
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For a time, superhero comics lost their popularity, and many teenage sidekicks faded into obscurity.
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Superhero comics feature stories about superheroes and the universes these characters inhabit.
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Less surprisingly, given the magazine's longstanding editorial standards and preferences, the list was also light on the dominant genre of superhero comics.
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When violence was depicted, it was often much more impressionistic, instead of the highly choreographed and detailed violence seen in many superhero comics.
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When superhero comics debuted in the late 1930s, they featured 64 pages of art for 10.
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