Fantasy comics

Fantasy comics
Fantasy comics
	Tarzan House of Mystery;
Subgenres
	Wuxia comics; Fairy tale comics; Science fantasy comics;
Related genres
	Horror comics;

Fantasy comics have been around as long as

Sandman

series.

History

In the American market, fantasy comics began in the

Tarzan

.

Starting in the late 1940s, horror-themed fantasy anthologies gained prominence, including

Vault of Horror; and titles such as American Comics Group Adventures into the Unknown and Forbidden Worlds. This trend faded with the publication of Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent

, which led to a Senate hearing that claimed a purported relationship between comics and juvenile violence. Fantasy comics survived in this new atmosphere, though in a diminished capacity.

Fantasy-themed super heroes continued to populate comics through the 1950s and regained popularity in the 1960s with such characters as Steve Ditko's Doctor Strange published by Marvel Comics and Jack Kirby's Thor.

In the 1970s, Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard, became one of the most popular publications of Marvel Comics.

In the 1990s,

The Sandman, created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg

took comics on a more literary path.

Notable creators

Adaptations

Several fantasy manga have been adapted into anime television series, including Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (2013),^[1] Akame ga Kill! (2014),^[2] The Seven Deadly Sins (2014),^[3] and Trinity Seven (2014).^[4]

On 5 August 2022, The Sandman was released on Netflix. It stars Tom Sturridge as Dream/Morpheus, the titular Sandman. Ten episodes were initially released.^[5] An eleventh bonus episode was subsequently released on Netflix on 19 August 2022.^[6]