:   Now you've gone off the deep end.  Demonstrate the synthesis from this quote from the actual cited source: 
 :: "It has become common in histories of the medium to cite Will Eisner and his 1978 A Contract with God as the first graphic novel and the first use of that term to promote an extended-length comics narrative." 
 ::... 
 ::However, as comics studies has come into its own as a discipline, scholars have taken pains to document that Contract was not the first graphic novel. ... [long list of precursors] ... In 1978, alongside Contract, there were at least five other long-form comics that, by virtue of content and format, had a better claim to the designation graphic novel 
 : Now do your magic and show how what's in the article is WP:SYNTH or WP:OR!  🍁