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This article lists major events in the field of comics during the 1980s.
Publications: 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989
Publications
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1980
1981
1982
- Young Magazine.
1983
March
- March 3: The Adventures of Tintin creator Hergé dies at age 75.
October
- American Flagg! by Howard Chaykin debuts.
1984
- crossover events which would become a staple of both Marvel and DC Comicspublishing schedule from that year on.
- Venom.
- television series, numerous video games, four feature films, and a wide range of toys and merchandise.
- Dragon Ball, by Akira Toriyama, debuts in Weekly Shōnen Jump.
1985
- the Flash.
1986
- The Man of Steel, a six-issue comic book limited series written and penciled by John Byrne, inked by Dick Giordano and published by DC Comics, debuts. The mini-series was designed to revamp the Superman mythos, using the history-altering effects of Crisis on Infinite Earths as an explanation for numerous changes to previous continuity.
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, a four-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics, debuts. It reintroduced Batmanto the general public as the psychologically dark character of his original 1930s conception, and helped to usher in an era of "grim and gritty" superheroes from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s.
- Watchmen, a twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics, debuts. To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award,[2] and is also the only graphic novel to appear on Time Magazine's 2005 list of "the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present."[3]
1987
- British comics artist Joe Colquhoun dies at c. age 60.
- Amazing Spider-Man Annual#21.
February
- Long-time Superman artist Wayne Boring dies at age 81.
- February 20: Blake and Mortimer creator Edgar P. Jacobs dies at age 82.
June
- Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter is fired by the company, succeeded by Tom DeFalco.
Initial appearances by character name
- Arnold John Flass, in Batman#404 (March, DC Comics)
1988
1989
Notes
- ^ Rozakis, Bob (2003). "It's Bob the Answer Man". Silver Bullet Comics. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
- ^ "AwardWeb: Hugo Award Winners" Archived 2014-02-09 at the Wayback Machine - Watchmen listed as a winner of the Hugo Award (retrieved 20 April 2006)
- ^ "Time Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels" – A synopsis describing Watchmen (retrieved 14 April 2006)
References
- The Dark Age: Grim, Great & Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics (by ISBN 1-893905-53-5)