As Christopher Nolan's Batman films and releases from the Marvel
Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts,
fans and critics alike might assume that the comic book movie is a
distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics
have been an integral part of American cinema from its very
inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page
to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own.
Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both
comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything
from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and
serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring
John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott Costello, Alan Ladd, and
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. With a special focus on the Classical
Hollywood era, Blair Davis investigates the factors that spurred
this media convergence, as the film and comics industries joined
forces to expand the reach of their various brands. While analyzing
this production history, he also tracks the artistic coevolution of
films and comics, considering the many formal elements that each
medium adopted and adapted from the other. As it explores our
abiding desire to experience the same characters and stories in
multiple forms, Movie Comics gives readers a new appreciation for
the unique qualities of the illustrated page and the cinematic
moving image.
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