The genre of comics, comic books and graphic novels is relatively new. The comic book format itself first appeared in the1930’s. Since then, comic books have been published in an amazingly wide variety of themes and artistic styles, however, for a long time, they were not taken seriously either by the broader public or on the academic level. This is quite understandable, because the first era of comic books was mainly dominated by tales for children, comedy strips (Famous Funnies) or superheroes (Superman, Fantastic Four etc.) wearing tights and saving the world from hilarious villains in unvarying and really dull stories. Adventure and detective stories were published as well (The Adventures of Tintin, or Rulah, Jungle Goddess), but they were rather simple pulp stories as well with monotonously repeating comic and action scenes. [...]