Adapting Comic Books to Radio

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It don't know whether to be surprised or not that both DC and Marvel comic audio books exist.

Mainly because after my last post on Comic book adaptions to Books I made a point that if it were to happen then someone would have to have written each scene from each panel in great detail while still keeping in mind the 'Dialogue:Action' ratio.

An audio book would be someone reading a book word by word. You can't exactly read an image like in a Comic book.

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That clearly hasn't stopped these from existing:

Original comic: http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Kingdom-Come-1996

This situation is similar to the chapter I covered of adaptations between Books and Music with War of the Worlds and how I wrote about how the use of sound effects can accurately illustrate a scene but the whole replacing the original image problem comes into play. Go back and read it to understand.

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Original comic: http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Giant-Size-X-Men

Interestingly this one comes with differences to the original dialogue. In fact they remove some lines and change some words as well as an included introduction performed by Stan Lee himself.

The use of sound effects also plays out here as well.