Comic Fun Facts

* Marvel was first known as timely comics (it was set up by a New York magazine publisher in 1939). It went from timely comics to Atlas and finally Marvel in 1961

* Marvel once owned the rights to the word 'Zombie'.

* The comics code authority forbade the use of werewolves in comics around 1969

* Marvel was the first comic company to give a black superhero his own comic book

* Superman was the first comic book super hero

* in 1946 when comic book sales in the US were out selling traditional books, concerned parents, teachers and libraries intervened by gathering and burning the books - a ritual which was later condemned

* The idea to use big eyes on anime characters came from American cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Bambi and Betty Boop

* The most simultaneously published comic strip is Peanuts by Charles Schulz, which appears in 2,620 different newspapers in 75 different countries

* The earliest cartoon strip named 'The Yellow Kid', was shown in the New York Journal in 1896

* The Addams family was originally a cartoon for The New Yorker