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===Comic books<!--'Humor comics', 'Humour comics', and 'Comedy comics' redirect here-->===
{{Main|Comic book}}
{{Also|History of comics|Teen humor comics}}
The first [[comic-strip]] cartoons were of a humorous tone.<ref>{{cite book |first=R. C. |last=Harvey |author-link=R. C. Harvey |chapter=Comedy at the Juncture of Word and Image |editor1-last=Varnum |editor1-first=Robin |editor2-last=Gibbons |editor2-first=Christina T. |title=The Language of Comics: Word and Image |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |year=2001 |page=77 |isbn=978-1-57806-414-4}}</ref> Notable early '''humor comics'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> include the Swiss comic-strip book ''[[Mr. Vieux Bois]]'' (1837), the British strip ''[[Ally Sloper]]'' (first appearing in 1867) and the American strip ''[[Yellow Kid]]'' (first appearing in 1895).

In the United States in the 1930s, books with cartoons were magazine-format "[[American comic book]]s" with original material, or occasionally reprints of newspaper comic strips.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 18, 2008 |title=A History of the Comic Book |url=http://www.randomhistory.com/1-50/033comic.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525003144/http://www.randomhistory.com/1-50/033comic.html |archive-date=25 May 2013 |access-date=16 July 2014 |website=Random History}}</ref>

In Britain in the 1930s, [[Action-adventure comics|adventure comic]] magazines became quite popular, especially those published by [[DC Thomson]]; the publisher sent observers around the country to talk to boys and learn what they wanted to read about. The story line in magazines, comic books and cinema that most appealed to boys was the glamorous heroism of British soldiers fighting wars that were exciting and just.<ref>[[Ernest Sackville Turner]], ''Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton et al.'' (3rd ed. 1975).</ref> DC Thomson issued the first [[The Dandy|''The Dandy Comic'']] in December 1937. It had a revolutionary design that broke away from the usual children's comics that were published broadsheet in size and not very colourful. Thomson capitalized on its success with a similar product ''[[The Beano]]'' in 1938.<ref>{{cite book|author=M. Keith Booker|title=Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas &#91;4 volumes&#93;: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnuQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA74|year=2014|page=74|publisher=Abc-Clio |isbn=9780313397516}}</ref>

On some occasions, new [[gag cartoon]]s have been created for book publication.