It may surprise some people unfamiliar with the comic book industry, with its multibillion-dollar movie tie-ins, that it’s been on the verge of collapse multiple times over the decades.

Wonder Woman No. 8 is one of the best single comics of the year as it basically gives the heroine her Amazing Spider-Man No. 33 equivalent, showing her strength isn’t just physical but mental.

By Brian Raftery One morning in early 1985, the comic strip creator Berkeley Breathed received a call from an unlikely fan: Ronald Reagan. Breathed had started “Bloom County,” the wily tale of ...