Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Today, we look at how comic book fans accidentally adopted a common book term as a comic book term. My friend, the excellent film scholar Kristen Anderson Wagner, was recently asking me some questions about comic book publishing terms (basically about how comics are treated in a scholastic setting), and I mentioned this topic to her, and noted that I had written about it on social media before, but I realized I have never done an article on it, and it really deserves an article, so, well, here it is.As I detailed a few years back, the first time that Marvel got into the trade paperback game was actually in the 1960s, when Lancer Books convinced them to put out some really cheap black and white paperback reprints of Marvel Comics, but in the old school paperback format which, of course, does not translate well to comic books…
Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Today, we look at how comic book fans accidentally adopted a common book term as a comic book term.
My friend, the excellent film scholar Kristen Anderson Wagner, was recently asking me some questions about comic book publishing terms (basically about how comics are treated in a scholastic setting), and I mentioned this topic to her, and noted that I had written about it on social media before, but I realized I have never done an article on it, and it really deserves an article, so, well, here it is.
As I detailed a few years back, the first time that Marvel got into the trade paperback game was actually in the 1960s, when Lancer Books convinced them to put out some really cheap black and white paperback reprints of Marvel Comics, but in the old school paperback format which, of course, does not translate well to comic books…
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