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| x name | x image | x Comic Book Series In This Genre | x Comic Book Stories In This Genre | x article |
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| x Superhero |
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More Fun Comics | Mind Out of Time! |
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is "a fictional character of unprecedented powers dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of...
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| Journey into Mystery | X-Men | |||
| Civil War | The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be | |||
| Project Superpowers | A Death in the Family, Part One | |||
| Captain America Comics | A Death in the Family, Part Two | |||
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| x Fantasy |
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Fables | The Sandman: Dream Country |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| Jack of Fables | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| Phonogram | Calliope | |||
| A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Façade | ||||
| x Fiction |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Fiction, from the Latin fingere to create, fictum created, is anything imaginatively invented, a feigned existence, event, or state of things. In a second more concrete and basically 20th-century meaning fiction has become the general term uniting...
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| A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
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| x Comic book |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a funny book, comic paper or comic magazine) is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, virtually always accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic...
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| Calliope | ||||
| A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Façade | ||||
| x Short story | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or...
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| Calliope | ||||
| A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Façade | ||||
| x Graphic novel |
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The Sandman: Dream Country |
A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novels. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and, in some cases, bound collections of previously published comic book...
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| x Zombie |
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Marvel Zombies: Dead Days |
A zombie is a mythical creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people...
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| Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness | ||||
| Marvel Zombies | ||||
| The Walking Dead | ||||
| x Detective | Will Eisner's The Spirit |
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a...
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| x Dystopia |
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Y: The Last Man |
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence, disease,...
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| x Anti-hero |
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Jack of Fables |
In fiction, an antihero (feminine: antiheroine) is a protagonist whose character or goals are antithetical to traditional heroism. The term dates to 1714, although literary criticism identifies the trope in earlier literature.
There is no...
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| The Maxx | ||||
| x Cyberpunk |
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Transmetropolitan |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983. It...
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| x Parallel universe |
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Wanted |
Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes...
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| x Horror |
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Supernatural: Origins |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since...
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| x Science fiction |
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2000 AD | Judge Dredd: Mutie Block (Part 1) |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, and time travel, often...
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| Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer | Judge Dredd: The Edgar Case (Part 6) | |||
| x Parody |
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The Pro |
A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. The main conventions for this genre are:
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| x Ballad |
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The Book of Ballads and Sagas |
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative and set to music. Ballads were characteristic of particularly British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later...
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| x Alien invasion | Superman: War of the Worlds |
The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which an extraterrestrial society invades Earth with the intent to exterminate and replace human life (Independence Day), enslave it under a colonial system (Invader Zim),...
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| x Fictional crossover |
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Superman: War of the Worlds |
A fictional crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, or because of...
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| x Autobiographical comics | American Splendor |
Autobiographical comics (often referred to in the comics field as simply autobio) are autobiography in the form of comic books or comic strips. The form first became popular in the underground comics movement and has since become more widespread. It...
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| Silly Daddy | ||||
| Maus | ||||
| Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary | ||||
| In the Shadow of No Towers | ||||
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