; Whereas superheroes entered the world of comic books in 1938 with the release of Action Comics No. 1 and the debut of Superman ; Whereas works include Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus (1980–1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize and Congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis’ National Book Award-winning March which was, itself, inspired by a 1958 comic Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story ; Whereas the most valuable comic book to-date remains the first edition of Action Comics , considered by many to be the first proper comic book to come into existence, which was sold for $3,200,000 in 2022 after going for 10 cents a piece in 1938; Whereas, in 2020, graphic novels made up 67 percent of the children’s book market in the United States; Whereas comic books and the popular arts are a valuable literary tool for helping educate millions of children allowing them to learn English and other languages; and Whereas the Library of Congress has more than 140,000 issues of about 13,000 comic-book titles and is the largest comic book collection in the world: Now, therefore, be it