comic book

Comic books on display at a museum, depicting how they would have been displayed at a rail station store in the first half of the 20th century A common comic-book cover format displays the issue number, date, price and publisher along with an illustration and cover copy which may include a story's title.

A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialogue contained in word balloons, which are emblematic of the comics art form.