There are no firsts in 1983...

[CKB]

...it's all been done before...

 

The last story in GI Joe 24 (Ziff Davis) has a story with no dialogue. It's the last story in the book....

 

Anyway, here's the last page. Sorry if this is well known, I was pretty surprised to come across it...

 

[Sid]

interesting

[october]

Wow, very interesting.

[Mad Dog]

certainly wasnt well know to me...

 

Seems like Marvel liked the idea though... many of the modern comics produced digitally the past years doenst seem to have much dialogue either

 

I like words

[Monstro]

wonder if they we're low on writers

[nearmint]

Isn't there a Batman from the early 70s with no dialogue?

[adamstrange]

Isn't there a Batman from the early 70s with no dialogue?

 

“Night of the Stalker” (Detective 439) by Vin & Sal Amendola -- one of my favorites.

 

Eisner did some Spirits with minimal dialog. I believe that one was done where the only dialog came from radio broadcasts.

[nearmint]

“Night of the Stalker” (Detective 439) by Vin & Sal Amendola -- one of my favorites.

 

That's the one.

[143ksk]

There's also this one from 1961 which tells an entire story with only the words "Archie" and "Veronica." One of my all time favorites

 

[Sid]

nice

[ciorac]

nice

 

Hey Sid, love the new avatar!

[adamstrange]

That's a gem of an Archie story!

[Zonker]

Isn't there a Batman from the early 70s with no dialogue?

 

“Night of the Stalker” (Detective 439) by Vin & Sal Amendola -- one of my favorites.

 

 

Just to clarify, the innovation from Night of the Stalker is that Batman has no dialogue-- though the other characters do. I posted some pages from the story over here.

 

[ashrael]

Very interesting about GI Joe. Thanks for all of the page scans!