A Complete History of American Comic BooksPeter Lang, 2008 - 353 pages This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us. |
Table des matières
THE FIRST COMICS | 9 |
THE FIRST SUPERHEROES | 21 |
4 | 37 |
THE RETURN OF SUPERHEROES | 99 |
DARKER KNIGHTS | 123 |
THE BATTLE OVER MARVEL | 149 |
A NEW DAY FOR COMICS | 169 |
COLLECTING COMIC BOOKS FOR FUN AND MAYBE PROFIT | 201 |
149 | 211 |
A NOBRAINSREQUIRED SUMMARY | 227 |
A COMICS INDUSTRY TIMELINE | 257 |
A COMICS GLOSSARY | 275 |
COMIC BOOK QUIZ | 289 |
ANSWERS | 295 |
INDEX | 312 |
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