Information:  - DC Thomson is a British publishing and television production company best known for producing "The Dundee Courier", "The Evening Telegraph", "The Sunday Post", "Oor Wullie", "The Broons", "The Beano", "The Dandy", and "Commando" comics. It also owns Parragon and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the "Press and Journal". It was a significant shareholder in the former ITV company Southern Television. Through its subsidiary DC Thomson Family History the company owns several websites including Friends Reunited and Findmypast. Based in Dundee, Scotland, the company also owns children books publisher Parragon.  - Detective Comics is the title of an American comic book series published by DC Comics. The first volume, published from 1937 to 2011, is best known for introducing the superhero Batman in "Detective Comics" #27 (cover date May 1939, release date March 1939). A second series of the same title was launched in the fall of 2011 but in 2016 reverted to the original volume numbering. The series is the source of its publishing company's name, and  along with "Action Comics", the series that launched with the debut of Superman  one of the medium's signature series. The series published 881 issues between 1937 and 2011 and is the longest continuously published comic book in the United States.  - The Beano is a long running British children's comic, published by DC Thomson. The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. In September 2009, "The Beano"'s 3,500th issue was published. One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with "The Dandy", the weekly circulation of "The Beano" in April 1950 was 1,974,072. "The Beano" is currently edited by Craig Graham. Each issue is published on a Wednesday , with the issue date being that of the following Saturday.  - The Dandy was a long-running British children's comic published by DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after "Detective Comics" (cover dated March 1937) and "Il Giornalino" (cover dated 1 October 1924). From August 2007 until October 2010, it was rebranded as "Dandy Xtreme".  - Sparky was a British comic published weekly by DC Thomson , that ran from ( issue dates ) 23 January 1965 to 9 July 1977 when it merged with The Topper after 652 issues . From 1965 - 1980 the comic published an annual entitled The Sparky Book . It was a DC Thomson comic , originally aimed at a slightly younger audience to The Beano and The Dandy later it was aimed at the same audience . It changed its name to The Sparky Comic in 1973 .    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'sparky '.  Choices: - 1  - 1937  - august  - book  - comic  - comic book  - commando  - company  - dc comics  - family  - history  - july  - march  - name  - production  - production company  - publishing  - running  - september  - series  - television  - title  - volume
The answer to this question is:
comic book