id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8651 American comic book - Wikipedia .html text/html 6891 803 64 Eleven of the top 25 best-selling comic books at the time were Dell titles.[24] Out of 40 publishers active in 1954, Dell, Atlas (i.e. Marvel), DC and Archie were the major players in volume of sales. The dominant comic book genres of the post-CCA 1950s were funny animals, humour, romance, television properties, and Westerns. In 1961, at the demand of publisher Martin Goodman (who was reacting to a surge in sales of National's newest superhero title The Justice League of America), writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby created the Fantastic Four for Atlas, which now re-named itself Marvel Comics. In addition, published formats like the graphic novel and the related trade paperback enabled the comic book to gain some respectability as literature. In 2017, Ohio State University Press created the Latinographix Series to counter the underrepresentation of Latino creators and characters in American comic books. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8651.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8651.txt