Best books on comic book history?4858
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| I watched the first episode of "Robert Kirkman's Secret history of Comic Books" over the weekend. It made me realize that while I've been reading comics for most of my life. And I read a lot of other books on a variety of subjects, including history, I've never read any books on the history of comic books. If anyone has any suggestions for good books on this subject to read, please post them in this thread. Let me know if it's a general history or of a specific era, genre or company. Thanks in advance. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lonestar For all the 'Comic Book Historians' that show quotes I've read precious little but Sean Howe's "Marvel Comics: The Untold Story" was an excellent read. It gets more and more sad and frustrating as it goes on though. |
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| The secret history of Wonder Woman is excellent. | ||
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| Jim Steranko's History of Comics Vol 1&2 are must haves for comic book historians. Just as an FYI, they are very large format, think treasury sized.   |
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Stan Lee's recently released Memoir (in graphic novel format) was a very entertaining & informative read.  |
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| Here's a good read online: https://web.archive.org/web/20060714153706/http://bugpowder.com/andy/e.speechballoons.evolution.html I have a theory that comic strips became popular because of the invention of motion pictures. |
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| Not exactly inclusive but I really love these books Marvel Universe by Peter Sanderson. This book basically defined the Marvel Universe for me when I was little. It only goes up to the 90s. It ends right before Heroes Reborn  This one is pretty good on the history of DC more as a company, where the Marvel Universe above is looking at characters, stories, and creators and how they've evolved over time  Then you have these year-by-year chronologies that highlight major issues storylines, and events, chronologically year by year   |
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| I forget the name but there is one by Fred Van Lente that I remember enjoying quite a bit | ||
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| For one book that manages to touch on most aspects of the history of comics, I believe it is hard to top Less Daniels' COMIX: A History of Comic Books in America. Other excellent overviews of collecting are: Steranko's History of Comics Volume 1 & 2, which are also just beautiful books Lupoff & Thompson's All in Color for a Dime There are number of other interesting reads that are more specific to a publisher or character, but the above stand out as comprehensive "history of..." books.    |
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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This book is about some fictitious golden age comic book artists. I would highly recommend it: |
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Lonestar private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. It looks like I've got a lot of good reading coming up. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by OrbitCityComics I watched Episode 2 which was about this. I now want to find and read this book. Bizarre and interesting story about the creator of Wonder Woman. I had heard the part about Marston creating the lie-detector, but I have never heard about his personal life. |
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| @IronMan - I agree that Les Daniels Comix: A History of Comic Books in America is a great read. I also recommend Jules Feiffer - The Great Comic Book Heroes, which includes color reprints of early Superman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Plastic Man, Captain America, and others. And The World Encyclopedia of Comics, edited by Maurice Horn, is a nice reference book.    |
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| This magazine has an article by Max Gaines that gives a history of comics prior to 1942. Print: A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts Volume 3 Issue 2 (1942)  The article was reprinted for libraries..  |
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| I grabbed that one by Sean Howe for my flight on Saturday | ||
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