Of comics and men : a cultural history of American comic books /

Of comics and men : a cultural history of American comic books /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gabilliet, Jean-Paul
Other Authors: Beaty, Bart, Nguyen, Nick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2010]
Subjects:
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Appendix: Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.