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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Manga comic books

Also Manga story lines usually move at a much quicker pace. Due to the high page count, one reads a Manga book at an accelerated pace. Manga books almost always have fewer panels and less dialogue (rambling) per page than American comic books.

The price for Manga is also more than the average comic book and a bit more than a standard paperback novel, the small size of Manga and black-and-white printing rather than full color keeps the cost down. The lack color is made up when you consider the story development that it'll have with the amount of pages it has.

Comic book origins

Actually the origin of comic books is not really known for certain. Up until recently there was one theory of what the first comic book was. Then new evidence suggested that this was incorrect. We may never really know when comic books started but as of this writing the first known comic book was "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck" which was written in 1837 somewhere in Europe in several languages. In 1842 an English version of this comic was printed for the United States, more specifically New York City.

The comic was 40 pages long and didn't really resemble the comics that we are used to seeing today. There were no word balloons with dialogue. Instead there was text typed at the bottom of each panel to describe the story. A copy of this comic was recently discovered in Oakland CA. The comic itself was done by Rudolphe Topffer who in Europe, was considered to be the creator of the picture story. He created the comic strip in 1827 as a graphic novel.

Dell Comic books

It wasn't until 1929 that Dell, one of the soon to be larger comic book publishers, got into the act. Their first comic was called "The Funnies" and was done in tabloid size format. The comic was 16 pages and sold for 10 cents. It was sold at news stands along with the newspapers. What was unique about this comic was that it was done in 4 colors and was not a collection of reprints but original comics.

CONCLUSION

Be sure that each comic in your collection is individually graded, either by yourself or friend, or professionally through the Comics Guaranty Company (CGC). Any especially rare or valuable comics should definitely be graded by the CGC prior to sale, as the official rating will often increase the price you can receive. Once every comic is graded, check the average selling price for each comic.