Definition of "comic book" [comic book]

• A book of comics strips or cartoons, often relating a sustained narrative. (noun)

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• "After an encounter with sparrow, Henry finds he is able to fly just like his favorite comic book hero HawkMan."
• "His name was Al Z, and for all intents and purposes he ran the Boston mob from above a comic book store on Newbury Street."
• "“In the early 1950s, I had the largest comic book collection in my neighborhood,” says Trelease, who has a framed Call of the Wild Classic Comic Book hanging on the wall of his office."