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!
You better believe it! Action Comics ran from 1938 to 2011, one of the longest-running comic books.
That's incredible!  And that's a lot of comic books!  I'm sure out of that many I'll be able to find something my boyfriend will like!
"Action Comics" returned to its original numbering beginning with issue #957 (Aug. 2016).
Publication history.
Publication history The Golden Age.
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster saw their creation, Superman (also known as Kal-El, originally Kal-L), launched in "Action Comics" #1 on April 18, 1938 (cover dated June), an event which began the Golden Age of Comic Books. Siegel and Shuster had tried for years to find a publisher for their Superman character—
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