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Message: [QUOTE="UnDubious, post: 209179, member: 4030"] It's mostly a different format, as others have stated. American comics are typically published as these short little 20-page issues or whatever, just a small slice of a larger story. A graphic novel is a full story in one, so it's a different product. There was also the fact that American comics were almost nothing but superheroes at one point, whereas with graphic novels you could talk about anything. So the term exists for good reasons. The Dark Knight is definitely not one of the first uses of the term, lol. It came from outside of Marvel and DC and they started using it to try and capture some of that new market. [/QUOTE]

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