Article: Old, new find room in comics

Comics nowadays are far more than just superheroes and funny animals such as Donald Duck and Tom and Jerry. They're also original novels, adaptations of TV shows and movies, dramatizations of historical events, and much more.

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If you fondly remember Casper, the friendly ghost, you'd be delighted by a huge, nearly 500-page compilation of 100 stories from Dark Horse ($20). It's how such books should be done: lots of material, high printing standards, great editorial notes, inexpensive - all in all, a great value.

Dark Horse also is releasing volumes of Little Lulu, re- introducing another generation to the adventures of the self- ...

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