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Article: Comic books make wham-bang gifts; From Superman to the Perhapanauts, there's lots for your list
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2006
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What's better than words for the person on your gift list who
likes to read fiction?
Easy: words and pictures.
Take us up on our suggestions for a graphic novel or comic book
from this year's collection and you, too, could be a superhero
(these books can be found at area comic book stores):
Heroes are super
Superhero comics still dominate the industry - they have the
biggest sales for their books and the biggest grosses for their
movies.
DC is in the midst of publishing an ambitious interconnected
yearlong weekly comic - appropriately titled "52" ($2.50) - that
focuses mostly on six obscure heroes.
DC's main heroes, like Superman and Batman, have had many of
their own collections, including ...