Comics The first comic book series was The Adventures Of Obadiah Oldbuck which was created in 1837 by Rudolphe Topffer. Even though it was the first comic book it had about 40 pages with both pictures and text. In 1952 A few years after the first comic book came out a guy called William Gaines started Mad Magazine. The magazine was very popular with monthly comic The world of comics has changed a lot since 1837 as