Thursday, June 28, 2012

Good books to learn about comic-book history, etc.

BOOKS ON COMIC-BOOK HISTORY:
 "All in Color for a Dime" by Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson
"Comics: Between the Panels" by Duin Richardson
"Comix: A History of Comic Books in America" by Les Daniels
"Great American Comic Books" by Ron Goulart
"The Great Comic Book Heroes" (1965; has a nice introduction by Jules Feiffer)
"Men of Tomorrow" by Gerard Jones
"A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics," edited by Michael Barrier and Martin Williams
"The Steranko History of Comics" (Vol.'s 1 and 2) by James Steranko

COMIC-BOOK RESOURCE BOOKS:
The Gerber Photo-Journals
The Overstreet Price Guide

VARIOUS COMIC-RELATED BOOKS WORTH A LOOK:
"Batman & Me" by Bob Kane
"60 Years of DC Comics" by Les Daniels
"Creators of the Superheroes" by Thomas Andrae
"The Mad World of William M. Gaines" by Frank Jacobs
"The Comic Book Heroes" by Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones
"Reinventing Comics" and Making Comics" by Scott McCloud
"Lee & Kirby: The Wonder Years" by Mark Alexander
Slings and Arrows Comic Guide
"The Comics" by Coulton Waugh (1947, mostly about newspaper strips)
"100 Years of Comic Strips" by Bill Blackburn, Dale Crane & James Vance
"The Comic Book in America" by Mike Benton
"The Comic-Book Book"
"My Life in Comics" by Joe Simon
"Man of Two Worlds" by Julie Schwartz

BOOKS ABOUT COMICS CONTROVERSY:
"Seduction of the Innocent" by Fredric Wertham
"The Ten Cent Plague" by David Hadju

COMIC-BOOK FANZINES WORTH TRACKING DOWN:
Alter-Ego
The Arf Forum
Squa Tront! (for EC Comics fans)
The Rocket Blast/Comic Collector
Robert Jennings' The Comic World

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