My boyfriend wants some comic books for his birthday and I don't know much about them!  I need help!!
Well a good one would be "Famous Funnies," the first modern comic book released in the US in 1933.
Comic books have been around that long??  I had no idea!  
Yep, they gained more popularity after 1938 when "Action Comics" debuted which included Superman.
Really??  That's amazing!  I've seen the Superman movie, and didn't know there were comic books too!
Action Comics
Action Comics is an American comic book/magazine series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters. The publisher was originally known as National Allied Publications, and later as National Comics Publications and as National Periodical Publications, before taking on its current name of DC Comics. Its original incarnation ran from 1938 to 2011 and stands as one of the longest-running comic books with consecutively numbered issues. A second volume of "Action Comics" beginning with issue #1 ran from 2011 to 2016.
my tiny 6 year old mind. I loved comic books growing up but always had a fear they might be something I would have to give up as an adult. Then one day somebody, I still don't know who, put some Batman comics through our letter box. These blew my tiny 11-year-old mind. They were pretty full on, nothing at all like the Adam West goofing around show I had seen Saturday morning television. In these stories people were being murdered, they were political, and morally ambiguous