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Golden Age of American Comics (Paperback)
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Golden Age of American Comics (Paperback)
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Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
You Save R166 (26%)
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The world has never seen the like of the American comic book. In
their heyday, the top 500 comics sold over 60 million copies a
month between them, and are still avidly collected today. They
attracted highly talented artists who could create characters and
tell stories as memorable as those in any movie or popular novel.
There were superheroes with bulging biceps and super heroines with
bulging bosoms, funny men and funny animals, gangster and villains,
war comics and sci-fi comics, and those that revelled in crime and
horror, the supernatural and sex - eventually attracting the
censorious eye of the social reformers. Taking us from the 1930s
into the 1950s, Nicky Wright tells the fascinating story of the
rise of this highly creative popular art form through to the
decline that set in with the self-censorship imposed on publishers
by Congress and the churches. Highly illustrated with a huge range
of front covers, comic strips, and characters, the book also covers
the personalities who wrote, drew and edited them to create a
history that will enlighten newcomers and enthral collectors.
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