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            Pop art painting using Ben Day dots of man and woman's face in profile, looking at a canvas to the left with a large speech bubble over their heads.
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            Masterpiece

            1962
            English text about Jewish history and pagan gods interspersed with images of a crowd of people on the horizon, someone chiseling an animal-head sculpture, and silhouetted figures talking.
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            The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure

            1999
            Engraving of two people speaking in the street.
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            Sample from “Besszer” Calendar: Foreigners in Budapest

            1892
            Cover page of comic featuring man with bat wings outstretched swinging through the air over buildings with a villain under his arm as two detectives watch, and heading "Detective Comics" across the top.
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            Detective Comics, May 1939: The Amazing and Unique Adventures of the Batman, cover

            1939
            Comic separated into 8 panels featuring man on street corner giving lecture about butcher shops and iniquity to passers-by.
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            Garnish Greens

            2000
            Newstrip comic with two rows of headings across the top, and two rows of three comic panels each with image and English text in bubbles, featuring man in suit speaking to another man in an office.
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            “The Spirit,” June 2, 1940

            1940
            Comic book cover with the title "Superduperman" and a Superman-like figure in a cape who is attacking an elderly disabled man, surrounded by a crowd and a cityscape, with English text and three comic panels underneath, of the exterior of a skyscraper in the first panel, exterior of a window in the second panel, and interior of an office in the third panel.
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            “Superduperman,” Mad #4

            1953
            Three-panel comic with English text above or below images, featuring disgruntled elderly man in profile in the far left panel, young crying girl blindfolded eating soup in center panel, and Superman-like figure soaring through the air in the right panel.
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            “Chickensouperman” from L’il Abner

            1966
            Comic strip featuring a title and heading across the top in French, and eight panels of comics below. The comics portray warriors, a man against several opponents, two warriors, a stylized map of France, a map of enemy tents, a warrior on a chair interrupted by a boy, two warriors talking, and four warriors talking while hiding behind a tree.
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            Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover

            1959
            Drawing of six figures sitting at the far side of a set table and a peacock on the near side.
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            Peacock Thanksgiving

            1976
            Comic strip with eight images of the same bearded man in robes with text next to each version of him.
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            Sick, Sick, Sick

            1958
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