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Comic Book Series

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This type is the top level object for modeling comics.It contains all series specific information, i.e. publisher, number of issues, what series it continues.  Finer grain information is recorded at the issue and story level.The Continues ... more

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The Uncanny X-Men     Marvel Comics
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X-Men     Marvel Comics
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The Amazing Spider-Man Cover to The Amazing Spider-Man #530.  Art by Ron Garney   Stan Lee Marvel Comics
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Steve Ditko
The X-Men          
Ronin Ronin Book One Book Frank Miller  
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Book Frank Miller DC Comics
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Comic Book Story Lynn Varley
Written Work Klaus Janson
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Flytrap     Sara Ryan Cold Water Press  
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Runaways Cover art from Runaways vol. 2, issue 1 (Feb 2001) Work of Fiction Brian K. Vaughan Marvel Comics
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Award-Winning Work
Trouble     Marvel Comics
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Araña Fictional Character    
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Midnight Nation      
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Ultimate Spider-Man Computer Game Series Brian Michael Bendis  
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Award-Winning Work Stan Lee
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Legends     DC Comics
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Ultimate Iron Man     Marvel Comics
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Identity Crisis   Brad Meltzer DC Comics
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Rags Morales
Justice Society of America Periodical    
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Spectre Fictional Character   DC Comics
The Spectre is a fictional cosmic entity and superhero who has appeared in numerous comic book published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a next issue ad in More Fun Comics #51 (January 1940) and received his first story the next month,...
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Superman/Batman     DC Comics
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DC One Million     DC Comics
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Showcase Showcase #4 (Oct. 1956), the first appearance of the Silver Age Flash.  Art by Carmine Infantino and Joe Kubert     DC Comics
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Battle Pope      
Battle Pope is an independent comic book created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, which was published by their own small press company under the moniker of Funk-O-Tron originally in 2000. The series was reprinted in color by Image Comics in 2005,...
House of M House of M #1 (Joe Quesada variant cover)     Marvel Comics
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