COMIC ISSUES – The Men In Black

 The Obscure Comic Book Film Source Project.

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A multi-blog look at lists of “Movies You Didn’t Know Were Based On Comics” to see how true they really are.

The Men in Black were a pair of 3 issue mini-series by Aircel Comics, the first published in 1990, the second the following year.

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NOT JUST SUPER HEROES – Crime Comics

Getting into reading and collecting comics can seem difficult to the newcomer and not everyone likes Superheroes.

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Given the early connections between comic and pulp novels, the popularity of crime comic goes without saying.  A famous example is DC’s Detective Comics which introduced the hero Batman in issue #27.  However the introduction of the Comic Code and its restrictions on the depiction of crime killed off the crime comic (and many other genres.)

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