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Of comics and men : a cultural history of American comic books
- Author
- Gabilliet, Jean-Paul.
- Preferred Title
- Des Comics et des hommes. English
- Title
- Of comics and men : a cultural history of American comic books / Jean-Paul Gabilliet ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2010.
- Description
- xx, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Other contributors
- Beaty, Bart. Nguyen, Nick.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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
- Appendix: Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.
- Subject headings
- Comic books, strips, etc.--United States--History and criticism.
- ISBN
- 9781604732672 (cloth : alk. paper) 1604732679 (cloth : alk. paper)