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Pages: 126
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The history of one company's romance comics and their publisher Archer St. John. It includes a short biography and interviews with the company's editors and art
Love on the Racks
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Authors: Michelle Nolan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-21 - Publisher: McFarland

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For the better part of three decades romance comics were an American institution. Nearly 6000 titles were published between 1947 and 1977, and for a time one in
Young Romance
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Jack Kirby
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-30 - Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

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In the late 1940s, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby ― creators of Captain America ― set the comics world on fire with the creation of a new genre that resulted in s
Drawing from the Archives
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Benoît Crucifix
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-06-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book proposes a new history of the graphic novel by examining how it recirculates older comics in the present.
The Sincerest Form of Parody
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: John Benson
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-02 - Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

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The best and funniest material from the bandwagon-jumping MAD imitators, with work by Jack Davis, Will Elder, Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Jack Kirby and many more