Concept » Hyborian Age appears in 1835 issues.
A common comic book genre where the main character(s) travel the globe seeking a discovery. Tintin is a good example of this genre.
Dynamite Entertainment’s version of DC’s Elseworlds and Marvel’s What If!'s in one shot form.
The Earth according to comics.
Collections of comic strips from newspapers syndication. Often published in half pages daily (in black and with one row panel) or on Sunday (in color with multiple row panels).
The use of magic words that are intended to bring bad luck to someone at a future time. Some curses can be very specific with deadly consequences while others take a more mundane way of bad luck.
The term demon has a myriad of uses in fiction mainly due to its emotive traditional meaning. Demons are often characterized as devious and/or brutal beings.
Ghosts are souls/spirits of the deceased who appear in the land of the living.
Giant Monsters, which include daikaiju or kaiju and what the U.S. monsterverse refer to as titans, are gigantic monsters that are hundreds of feet tall, these creatures have been both terrorizing and helping people for decades to centuries to aeons.
Magic is a term utilized to describe a wide variety of supernatural sources of power. Notable users include Zatara, Zatanna, Doctor Strange, and Doctor Fate.
A form of magic where one raises or controls the dead.
When a person is overcome with outside force but still resides on the back seat in their own body.
The events occurring after the appearance of life on earth but before the invention of a writing system and the recording of human history. The Prehistory time frame of Earth is from approximately 2 billion years ago until approximately 2000 BC. Some definitions would limit the time frame to the appearance of human life on Earth 2 million years ago.
Escapist fiction popularized in the first half of the 20th century.
To bring someone back to life after they have been dead.
A genre in comics (especially with pirates and the navies). Usually takes place in oceans and seas, sometimes on lakes and rivers too.
The ability to summon spirits, demons or other entities to hopefully aid the Summoner.
An event that happened in 18,000 B.C. It caused the kingdoms of Atlantis and Lemuria to be submerged into the sea.
Living/reanimated corpses such as mummies, skeletons, vampires, and zombies. Not to be confused with resurrection, which is bringing someone back from the dead.
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