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Text Story

Text Story

In the Platinum & early days of Golden Era age it was common to have a text story published in comics magazines.

Name:
Text Story
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Start year:
1935
First issue:
New Fun (1935) #1
cover

Most text stories in comic books during the Golden Age mainly contain at least one or two pages of a stories. Sometimes they have some pictures, but they don't convey a panel sequence to tell a story from page to page.

Most text story genres are jungle adventures, cowboy westerns, war, crime, horror and sometimes superheroes. A well known superhero text story is "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" by Stan Lee in Captain America Comics #3 as it was the very first comic book story written by Stan.

Issues

May 1937

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1937

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1939

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