Movie comics
Subtitle: page to screen/screen to page
By: Blair Davis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780813572253; 9780813572260
Subjects: Comic strip characters on television; Celebrities in literature; Adaptations; Comic strip characters in motion pictures; Celebrities in art; Comic books, strips
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Movies and comics adapt each other : Happy Hooligan, Buster Brown, Dream of a rarebit fiend, Charlie Chaplin, film fun, the Kinema Comic; title: 1930s comics-to-film adaptations : Skippy, Little Orphan Annie, Harold Teen, Popeye, Funny page, Tailspin Tommy, Ace Drummond, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Jungle Jim, Dick Tracy, Blondie; title: 1930s cinema and comics : screen to page : Mickey Mouse, Big little books, Tim McCoy, Police car 17, Famous Funnies, Jumbo comics, Action comics, Marvel comics, Motion picture funnies weekly, movie comics; title: 1940s comics-to-film adaptations : Superman (1941), Captain Marvel, Batman, Captain America, Terry and the pirates, Don Winslow, Red Ryder, Superman (1948), Dick Tracy, Tillie the toiler, Joe Palooka; title: 1940s cinema and comics : screen to page : Superman meets Orson Welles, Walt Disney comics and stories, four color, cinema comics herald, Graphic Little Theater, Gene Autry, the adventures of Alan Ladd, John Wayne adventure comics; title: 1950s comics-to-film and television adaptations : Atom Man vs. Superman, Blackhawk, Jungle Jim, Prince Valiant, The Sad Sack, L'il Abner, The spirit, Dick Tracy, Fearless Fosdick, Flash Gordon, Terry and the pirates, Blondie, Dennis the menace, Steve Canyon, Adventures of Superman, Superpup; title: 1950s cinema, television and comics : screen to page : Howdy Doody, Rocky Jones, Space ranger, Milton Berle, Tee and Vee Crosley in television land comics, Fredric Wertham, movie love, Motion picture comics, Dell four color, Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Hopalong Cassidy, Dale Evans, Hollywood Film stories, Hollywood diary, Hollywood confessions, Starlet O'Hara; title: Conclusion. The 1960s and beyond : The phantom, Archie, Batman, Marvel super heroes, Marvel super special.