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
Aliases:
- Promotional Giveaway
- Custom Comic
Start year:
1932
First issue:
Adventures of Eva, Pora and Ted (1932) #1
Note: This page can only be attached to comics that were either free giveaways or pack-ins with another product that they are directly related to. The category is not necessarily about the story content but the meta of how the comic was distributed.
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.
