Super-History

Super-History
Title Super-History PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey K. Johnson
Publisher McFarland
Pages 0
Release 2012-04-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780786465644

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In the less than eight decades since Superman's debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have become an indispensable part of American society and the nation's dominant mythology. They represent America's hopes, dreams, fears, and needs. As a form of popular literature, superhero narratives have closely mirrored trends and events in the nation. This study views American history from 1938 to 2010 through the lens of superhero comics, revealing the spandex-clad guardians to be not only fictional characters but barometers of the place and time in which they reside. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Comic Book Historians Presents...

Comic Book Historians Presents...
Title Comic Book Historians Presents... PDF eBook
Author Alex Grand
Publisher Comic Book Historians
Pages 112
Release 2021-12-10
Genre
ISBN 9781736764770

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Celebrate illustrator-writer Howard Chaykin's life and works through a career spanning zine that encompasses his life, controversies, and biographical interview that starts when he was born in 1950 through his childhood reading comic books and watching films during the 1960s, his training under Gil Kane, Wally Wood and Neal Adams in the late 1960s through the early 1970s, his early work at Marvel, DC, Atlas/Seaboard, Byron Preiss, Heavy Metal and on into American Flagg! for First Comics, as well as The Shadow, Time Square, Blackhawk, Black Kiss, Cyberella with Don Cameron, his television career including the 1990s Flash TV show, Legend with Russ Heath, Hawkgirl with Walt Simonson, his more recent Marvel career in 2012, Black Kiss 2, the controversy surrounding the Divided States of Hysteria, and finally his ode to comic history, Hey Kids! Comics!

Frank Thorne the Blue

Frank Thorne the Blue
Title Frank Thorne the Blue PDF eBook
Author Alex Grand
Publisher
Pages 62
Release 2021-04-20
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 9781736764749

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Interview book with Frank Thorne with some introductions by Comic Book Historians

Miss Fury

Miss Fury
Title Miss Fury PDF eBook
Author Tarpé Mills
Publisher
Pages 62
Release 1979
Genre Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
ISBN 9780915822317

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2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide

2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide
Title 2010 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide PDF eBook
Author Maggie Thompson
Publisher Penguin
Pages 5414
Release 2009-10-08
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 1440229112

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No other guide on the market covers the volume of comic book listings and range of eras as Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide does, in an easy-to-use checklist format. Readers can access listings for 130,000 comics, issued since 1961, complete with names, cover date, creator information and near-mint pricing. With super-hero art on the cover and collecting details from the experts as America's longest-running magazine about comics in this book, there is nothing that compares.

The Comic Book History of Animation: True Toon Tales of the Most Iconic Characters, Artists and Styles!

The Comic Book History of Animation: True Toon Tales of the Most Iconic Characters, Artists and Styles!
Title The Comic Book History of Animation: True Toon Tales of the Most Iconic Characters, Artists and Styles! PDF eBook
Author Fred Van Lente
Publisher IDW Publishing
Pages 132
Release 2021-07-21
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1649360002

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From the team behind The Comic Book History of Comics comes the perfect companion piece telling the story of the triumphs and tragedies of the filmmakers and beloved animated characters of the past century and a half—essential for hardcore fans of the medium and noobies alike! It's all here, from Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyazaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in-between! Begin in the early 1900s with J. Stuart Blackton and the first American cartoon, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, and Felix the Cat! Find out about Margaret Winkler, the most powerful person in early animation, and Walt Disney, who revolutionizes cartoons with sound and color! Discover how Fleischer Studios teaches us to sing "Boop-boop-a-doop" and eat our spinach, and how Warner Bros' Looney Toons rivaled Disney's Silly Symphonies! Plus, icons of animation including Hanna-Barbera, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, and Ruby-Spears; the Plastic Age of toy-based TV shows including G.I. Joe, Transformers, and He-Man; and the new Golden Age of TV animation launched by The Simpsons! And go abroad to France with Émile Cohl's dynamic doodles in Fantasmagorie; to Japan, where the Imperial Navy debuts the first full-length anime as propaganda, Divine Sea Warriors, and Osamu Tezuka conquers TV as he conquered manga; and to Argentina, which beat out Snow White for the first feature length animated movie by two decades! And finally, Jurassic Park and the computer animation revolution! Post-Little Mermaid Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli conquer the world! If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the history of animation but were afraid to ask, this book is especially for you!

The Comic Book Heroes

The Comic Book Heroes
Title The Comic Book Heroes PDF eBook
Author Will Jacobs
Publisher Crown
Pages 382
Release 1985
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN

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The first history of modern costumed-hero comic books, from the start of the Silver Age in 1956 up to today. Focusing on DC and Marvel Comics, the story begins with the efforts of DC to revitalize such Golden Age heroes as the Flash, Superman, and Green Lantern in the wake of the anti-comic furor of the early 1950s. The authors cover the science fiction rage of the late 1950s, the birth of the experimental Marvel Comics Group in 1961, the emergence of such classic Marvel characters as the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, the "camp" craze set off by the "Batman" TV show in 1966, and the socially conscious and politically relevant comics of the early 1970s. Later chapters describe the slump of the mid-1970s, as the medium lost touch with its young readers, followed by the comics' resurgence of the 1980s, as many new companies help DC and Marvel to extend the boundaries of the field with innovation, daring, and a new sophistication. Factually thorough and written in a lively, narrative style, this history includes behind-the-scenes glimpses at the men who wrote, drew, and published the comics, the impact of their creations on the fans, and critical assessments of the works themselves. Illustrated throughout with examples of comic book art, The Comic Book Heroes will inform and entertain both the hardcore fan and the casual reader of this most popular of American mediums.