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Author : Roy Thomas
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780785832829
Presenting over 20 classic full length Superman tales from the DC Comics vault!
Author : Roy Thomas
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780785832836
"Presenting over 20 classic full length Batman tales from the DC Comics vault!"--Cover.
Author : Roy Thomas,William Moulton Marston,Gardner Francis Fox
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780785832843
Presenting over 20 classic full length Wonder Woman tales from the DC Comics vault!
Author : Jerry Siegel
Publisher : DC
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401267520
Faster than a speeding bullet, Superman burst onto the comic book scene in 1938, just as America was on the terrifying precipice of a world war. In a desperate time, legendary creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster brought to life the worldÕs first modern superhero. The Man of Steel emerged as a champion of the oppressed, taking down any enemy with his super-strength and speed, both foreign and near to home. In his distinctive royal blue, red and yellow costume, complete with cape, the stalwart Kryptonian emanated strength and fearlessness. He swiftly became a symbol of hope for a downtrodden America. Collecting all of the Metropolis WonderÕs first-ever adventures from ACTION COMICS #1-19, SUPERMAN #1-3 and NEW YORK WORLDÕS FAIR COMICS #1!
Author : Bradford W. Wright
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801874505
A history of comic books from the 1930s to 9/11.
Author : Trischa Goodnow,James J. Kimble
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496810311
Contributions by Derek T. Buescher, Travis L. Cox, Trischa Goodnow, Jon Judy, John R. Katsion, James J. Kimble, Christina M. Knopf, Steven E. Martin, Brad Palmer, Elliott Sawyer, Deborah Clark Vance, David E. Wilt, and Zou Yizheng One of the most overlooked aspects of the Allied war effort involved a surprising initiative--comic book propaganda. Even before Pearl Harbor, the comic book industry enlisted its formidable army of artists, writers, and editors to dramatize the conflict for readers of every age and interest. Comic book superheroes and everyday characters modeled positive behaviors and encouraged readers to keep scrapping. Ultimately, those characters proved to be persuasive icons in the war's most colorful and indelible propaganda campaign. The 10 Cent War presents a riveting analysis of how different types of comic books and comic book characters supplied reasons and means to support the war. The contributors demonstrate that, free of government control, these appeals produced this overall imperative. The book discusses the role of such major characters as Superman, Wonder Woman, and Uncle Sam along with a host of such minor characters as kid gangs and superhero sidekicks. It even considers novelty and small presses, providing a well-rounded look at the many ways that comic books served as popular propaganda.
Author : Jerry Siegel,Don Cameron,Otto Binder,Jerry Coleman
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401284015
Action Comics is the longest-running continually published comic book in history, and itÕs the series that launched the superhero genre with the introduction of Superman in 1938. DC Entertainment is celebrating its 80th anniversary with Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman Deluxe Edition, which features cover art by artist and DC Publisher Jim Lee. Join DC in a celebration of ActionÕs amazing 80-year run, with reflections on Action Comics by Laura Siegel Larson (daughter of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel) and celebrated writers Jules Feiffer, Tom DeHaven, David Hajdu, Larry Tye, Gene Luen Yang, Marv Wolfman and Paul Levitz. Featuring the very first Superman story, the debut of Supergirl, the first stories of arch-villains the Toyman and Brainiac, a never-before-published story from the original creative studio of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, dating back seven decades, and more! Celebrate the hundreds of people who made Action Comics so impactful and culturally relevant for over eight decades with Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman Deluxe Edition.
Author : Jeffrey K. Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786465646
In the less than eight decades since Superman's debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have become an indispensable part of American society and the nation's dominant mythology. They represent America's hopes, dreams, fears, and needs. As a form of popular literature, superhero narratives have closely mirrored trends and events in the nation. This study views American history from 1938 to 2010 through the lens of superhero comics, revealing the spandex-clad guardians to be not only fictional characters but barometers of the place and time in which they reside. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Laurie S. Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0446303569
Author : Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780226829463
Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.
Author : Jerry Siegel,Joe Shuster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1401204570
Reprints eighteen Superman comics, originally published between 1938 and 1949.
Author : Joan Schenkar
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429961011
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes A 2010 New York Times Notable Book A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, Strangers on a Train, to her long, strange self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and an erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. The Talented Miss Highsmith is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.
Author : Jerry Siegel,Joe Shuster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : 1401209521
Written and illustrated by various Cover by John Byrne Don't missthis collection of tales from the '80s, reprinted from ACTION COMICS#507-508, 554, 595, 600 (select stories), 644, SUPERMAN #408, DC COMICS PRESENTS#29, and ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #430! Artist/writer Jerry Ordway provides theintroduction and context for this latest addition to DC's "Decades" library.
Author : John Byrne,Patricia Rose Mulvihill,Bob Kane,Joe Simon,Jack Kirby
Publisher : Dc Comics
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 156389291X
/John Byrne As World War II rages on, Batman and Captain America, along with their teenaged sidekicks Robin and Bucky, must become allies to combat the villainy of their greatest foes, the Joker and the Red Skull. This fun, fast paced tale is co-published with Marvel Comics and is drawn in a style reminiscent of the 1940s Golden Age of
Author : Liel Leibovitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300252262
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created—Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four—occupy Hollywood’s imagination and production schedules, generate billions at the box office, and come as close as anything we have to a shared American mythology. This illuminating biography focuses as much on Lee’s ideas as it does on his unlikely rise to stardom. It surveys his cultural and religious upbringing and draws surprising connections between celebrated comic book heroes and the ancient tales of the Bible, the Talmud, and Jewish mysticism. Was Spider-Man just a reincarnation of Cain? Is the Incredible Hulk simply Adam by another name? From close readings of Lee’s work to little-known anecdotes from Marvel’s history, the book paints a portrait of Lee that goes much deeper than one of his signature onscreen cameos. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: “Excellent.” – New York times “Exemplary.” – Wall St. Journal “Distinguished.” – New Yorker “Superb.” – The Guardian