Of comics and men : a cultural history of American comic books /
Gabilliet, Jean-Paul.
Beaty, Bart.
Nguyen, Nick.
Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From comics to comic books (1842 1936) -- The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines -- (1936 1940) -- Comic books at war (1940 1945) -- Ever more the apogee and the fall (1945 1954) -- Decline and rebirth (1955 1962) -- The age of innovation (1963 1969) -- Research and development by trial and error -- (1969 1979) -- The recovery of the 1980s (1980 1993) -- The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- ) production -- The business of comic books -- The creators -- The readers -- Calls for censorship -- Internal consecration -- External consecration -- Conclusion -- Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.
Comic books, strips, etc.