Promotional Comic
Corporate or government tie-ins usually given away to entice or educate children about a certain product or social issue.
Name:
Promotional Comic
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Start year:
1932
First issue:
Adventures of Eva, Pora and Ted (1932) #1
They are often not very serious (at least contextually compared to other comic series), and have really convoluted storylines involving a new character that the corporation or Government agency has created.
The created character is usually the main protagonist who is helped by a super hero or the main antagonist, sometimes poorly done through being the personification of an abstract concept or disease.
