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The Comet Awards was founded in 1953, and in the early days, the awards were more of a game.

Before the establishment of the Comet Awards, the United States had an award called the "World Science Fiction Awards", and it was the only one, this award for English science fiction novels, the best novella, the best novella and the best short story were selected every year.

In the fall of 1952, a young man named Hugo Gensback published a long science fiction novel called The Comet.

The novel was a huge success, and by the spring of 1953, the "Comet" craze had not subsided, earning Hugo Gernsback a large following, including the famous New York playboy Jeff Richman.

Rickman tried to use his money and influence to get "Comet" selected for the World Science Fiction Awards, but unfortunately, under the opaque selection mechanism at the time, the organizing committee directly rejected the request.

The reason is mysterious: "Comet is an excellent science fiction novel, but it is not suitable for the World Science Fiction Awards." ”

Rickman didn't figure out what it meant to be unsuitable, but he quickly learned the real reason under his money offensive.

Hugo Gensback is from Luxembourg and is not from the United States.

This made the playboy so angry that he created a science fiction award for himself, named after his favorite novel, the "Comet Award".

However, after the Comet Award was created, it was already July 1953, and if the selection was to be made according to the regular procedure, it would take at least four months, so that it would be December.

No matter how you look at it, it seems a little awkward and a little late to select the outstanding works of the previous year at the end of the year.

Richman insisted on making "Comet" win, so he was very witty and very willful to adjust the publication time frame of the participating works, as long as the novel was published from June to June of the following year, it could participate in the selection of the Comet Award.

This not only included "Comet", but also successfully avoided the embarrassment of time.

This competition system, after the development and growth of the Comet Award, has become a kind of benchmark, so much so that the later "Galaxy Award" also adopted this method to select works.

Therefore, to be precise, "Batman: Year One" is not qualified for the 2008 "Comet Award", but for 2007-2008.

As for the "substitute selection" mentioned by the Comet Award Organizing Committee, it is a last resort, because they do not know what words should be used to be more accurate.

In the more than 50-year history of the Comet Awards, in addition to science fiction, there are fantasy novels, fairy tales, screenplays, movies and other forms of fantasy artworks that have won awards, but there are no comics.

The organizing committee of the Comet Award struggled for a long time in the face of the comic works selected for the first time in history, and finally used the inaccurate "substitute selection".

Of course, netizens will not be entangled in what words should be used here, they have been stunned by this sudden news.

""Batman: Year One, as a comic, was actually selected for the Comet Award?"

"I just looked at the calendar, hasn't April Fool's Day been a few days?!

"You have to believe in the father of superheroes, who used his abilities to break the iron rule that the Comet Awards do not select comics!"

"I burst into tears, we are really witnessing the ...... of history"

"Sure enough, it's a historic breakthrough, a milestone in comics......"

And people such as Stan Lee, Mark Duhon, Bob Turner and others congratulated Meng Qi on Twitter for the first time, and many media also played eye-catching news headlines such as "Batman: Year One made history and was selected for the Comet Award", and "Comic Frontline", the Wara Brothers, and the NBO spared no effort to promote it.

Although the results of the Comet Awards will not be finally revealed until the end of August, the entire comic book world is now in a huge carnival and ecstasy.

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