The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics
Title The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics PDF eBook
Author Paul Gravett
Publisher Running Press Adult
Pages 510
Release 2008-08-12
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN

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Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics

The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics
Title The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics PDF eBook
Author David Kendall
Publisher Constable
Pages 520
Release 2007
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN

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30 of the greatest graphic short stories ever produced on the theme of war.

The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics

The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics
Title The Mammoth Book of Zombie Comics PDF eBook
Author David Kendall
Publisher Constable
Pages 0
Release 2008
Genre Horror comic books, strips, etc
ISBN 9781845297145

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Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics

The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics
Title The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics PDF eBook
Author Peter Normanton
Publisher Running Press
Pages 0
Release 2008-03-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780786720729

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Bringing together the finest names in comic book horror, this volume features nearly 50 comics that caused a furor in the US and sparked legislation to crack down on explicit horror—from the 1940s to the 21st century. Includes names like Steve Niles, Pete Von Sholly, Michael Kaluta, Mike Ploog, Rudy Palais, Rand Holmes, Vincent Locke, Frank Brunner, and many more. Reproduced in black and white for this brand-new collection.

The Best of Comix Book

The Best of Comix Book
Title The Best of Comix Book PDF eBook
Author Denis Kitchen
Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Pages 192
Release 2013
Genre Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN 1616552581

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In 1974, legendary Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee approached underground pioneer Denis Kitchen and offered a way for them to collaborate. Their resulting series was called Comix Book and featured work by many of the top underground cartoonists including Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Harvey Pekar, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson. The Best of Comix Book showcases 150-pages of classic underground comix (printed on newsprint, as they originally appeared), many never before reprinted.

Four Color Fear

Four Color Fear
Title Four Color Fear PDF eBook
Author Greg Sadowski
Publisher Fantagraphics Books
Pages 321
Release 2010-10-18
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1606993437

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A massive collection of never-before-collected pre-Comics Code horror comics of the 1950s. Of the myriad genres comic books ventured into during its golden age, none was as controversial as or came at a greater cost than horror; the public outrage it incited almost destroyed the entire industry. Yet before the watchdog groups and Congress could intercede, horror books were flying off the newsstands. During its peak period (1951–54) over fifty titles appeared each month. Apparently there was something perversely irresistible about these graphic excursions into our dark side, and Four Color Fear collects the finest of these into a single robust volume.

The Ten-Cent Plague

The Ten-Cent Plague
Title The Ten-Cent Plague PDF eBook
Author David Hajdu
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 462
Release 2009-02-03
Genre Art
ISBN 9780312428235

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In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, the popular culture of today was invented in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no sooner had comics emerged than they were beaten down by mass bonfires, congressional hearings, and a McCarthyish panic over their unmonitored and uncensored content. Esteemed critic David Hajdu vividly evokes the rise, fall, and rise again of comics in this engrossing history. "Marvelous . . . a staggeringly well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book, and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it....Hajdu’s important book dramatizes an early, long-forgotten skirmish in the culture wars that, half a century later, continues to roil."--Jennifer Reese,Entertainment Weekly(Grade: A-) "Incisive and entertaining . . . This book tells an amazing story, with thrills and chills more extreme than the workings of a comic book’s imagination."--Janet Maslin,The New York Times "A well-written, detailed book . . . Hajdu’s research is impressive."--Bob Minzesheimer,USA Today "Crammed with interviews and original research, Hajdu’s book is a sprawling cultural history of comic books."--Matthew Price,Newsday "To those who think rock 'n' roll created the postwar generation gap, David Hajdu says: Think again. Every page ofThe Ten-Cent Plagueevinces [Hajdu’s] zest for the 'aesthetic lawlessness' of comic books and his sympathetic respect for the people who made them. Comic books have grown up, but Hajdu’s affectionate portrait of their rowdy adolescence will make readers hope they never lose their impudent edge."--Wendy Smith, Chicago Tribune "A vivid and engaging book."--Louis Menand,The New Yorker "David Hajdu, who perfectly detailed the Dylan-era Greenwhich Village scene in Positively 4th Street, does the same for the birth and near death (McCarthyism!) of comic books inThe Ten-Cent Plague." --GQ "Sharp . . . lively . . . entertaining and erudite . . . David Hajdu offers captivating insights into America’s early bluestocking-versus-blue-collar culture wars, and the later tensions between wary parents and the first generation of kids with buying power to mold mass entertainment."--R. C. Baker,The Village Voice "Hajdu doggedly documents a long national saga of comic creators testing the limits of content while facing down an ever-changing bonfire brigade. That brigade was made up, at varying times, of politicians, lawmen, preachers, medical minds, and academics. Sometimes, their regulatory bids recalled the Hays Code; at others, it was a bottled-up version of McCarthyism. Most of all, the hysteria over comics foreshadowed the looming rock 'n' roll era."--Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times "A compelling story of the pride, prejudice, and paranoia that marred the reception of mass entertainment in the first half of the century."--Michael Saler,The Times Literary Supplement(London) David Hajdu is the author ofLush Life: A Biography of Billy StrayhornandPositively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña.