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Comic Book Genre list
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tristan
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| Superhero |
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Book Subject | More Fun Comics | Mind Out of Time! |
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". Since the debut of the prototypal superhero Superman in 1938, stories of...
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| Character Occupation | Journey into Mystery | X-Men | |||
| Film genre | Civil War | The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be | |||
| Media genre | Project Superpowers | A Death in the Family, Part One | |||
| Computer Game Genre | Captain America Comics | A Death in the Family, Part Two | |||
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| Fantasy |
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Book Subject | Fables | The Sandman: Dream Country |
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and...
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| TV Genre | Jack of Fables | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| Computer Game Genre | Calliope | ||||
| Literary Genre | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Website Category | Façade | ||||
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| Fantasy literature | Book Subject | Fables | The Sandman: Dream Country |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of film, television programs, graphic novel,...
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| Literary Genre | Jack of Fables | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| Media genre | Calliope | ||||
| Award discipline | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
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| Fiction |
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Literary Genre | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real. More specifically, fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form...
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| Media genre | The Sandman: Dream Country | ||||
| Field Of Study | Calliope | ||||
| Award discipline | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Quotation Subject | Façade | ||||
| Comic book |
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Literary Genre | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a magazine or book of narrative artwork and, virtually always, dialog and descriptive prose. Despite the term, the subject matter in comic books...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | The Sandman: Dream Country | ||||
| Media genre | Calliope | ||||
| Broadcast Genre | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
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| Short story | Book Subject | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
The short story is a literary genre of fiction prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novella (in the modern sense of the term) and novel.
Short stories have their origins in oral story...
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| Type/domain equivalent topic | Calliope | ||||
| Literary Genre | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Media genre | Façade | ||||
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| Graphic novel |
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Literary Genre | The Sandman: Dream Country |
A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novel, and often aimed at mature audiences. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of...
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| Zombie |
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Film genre | Marvel Zombies |
A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as workers by a powerful sorcerer. Zombies became a popular device in modern...
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| Character Species | Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness | ||||
| M:TG Creature Type | Marvel Zombies: Dead Days | ||||
| Film subject | The Walking Dead | ||||
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| Detective | Profession | Will Eisner's The Spirit |
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. They may be known as private investigator (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is...
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| Dystopia |
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Book Subject | Y: The Last Man |
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society that is the opposite of utopia. A dystopian society is a state in which the conditions of life are miserable,...
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| Anti-hero |
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Character Occupation | Jack of Fables |
In fiction, an antihero is a protagonist whose character and goals are antithetical to classical heroism.
The term dates to 1714.
There is no definitive moment when the antihero came into existence as a literary trope. Apollonius of Rhodes'...
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| Media genre | The Maxx | ||||
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| Cyberpunk |
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Book Subject | Transmetropolitan |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, although...
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| Parallel universe |
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Book Subject | Wanted |
Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes...
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| Horror fiction |
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Book Subject | Supernatural: Origins |
Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since...
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| Science fiction |
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Book Subject | 2000 AD | Judge Dredd: Mutie Block (Part 1) |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft,...
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| TV Genre | Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer | Judge Dredd: The Edgar Case (Part 6) | |||
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| Parody |
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Film genre | The Pro |
A parody ( US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK), in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, by means of humorous or satiric imitation. As the literary theorist Linda Hutcheon (2000: 7) puts...
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