Of Comics and men : : a Cultural History of American Comic Books
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From comics to comic books (1842 1936) -- The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines -- (1936 1940) -- Comic books at war (1940 1945) -- Ever more the apogee and the fall (1945 1954) -- Decline and rebirth (1955 1962) -- The age of innovation (1963 1969) -- Research and development by trial and error -- (1969 1979) -- The recovery of the 1980s (1980 1993) -- The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- ) production -- The business of comic books -- The creators -- The readers -- Calls for censorship -- Internal consecration -- External consecration -- Conclusion -- Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.
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PUBLISHED
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xx, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781604732672
1604732679
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Beaty, Bart.
Nguyen, Nick.
SUBJECTS
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.