Download or read book John Wayne Adventure Comics written by John Wayne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1930 to 1976, John Wayne was one of the biggest movie stars of all-time, starring in nearly 200 motion pictures. Known predominantly as a cowboy, he became an American icon, epitomizing rugged masculinity and above all, honor. From 1949 until 1955, he was featured in a series of 31 comic books, which are now fairly difficult to find in circulation. Starry Night Publishing is proud to bring them to you, for the enjoyment of a new generation.
Download or read book Redrawing the Western written by William Grady and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture. Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes, from the origins of the Western in the nineteenth-century illustrated press; through fin de siècle anxieties with the closing of the frontier, and the centrality of cowboy adventure across the interwar, postwar, and high Cold War years; to the revisions of the genre in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Western’s continued vitality in contemporary comics storytelling. In its study of stories about vengeance, conquest, and justice on the contested frontier, Redrawing the Western highlights how the “simplistic” conflicts common in Western adventure comics could disguise highly political undercurrents, providing young readers with new ways to think about the contemporaneous social and political milieu. Besides tracing the history, forms, and politics of American Western comics in and around the twentieth century, William Grady offers an original reassessment of the important role of comics in the development of the Western genre, ranking them alongside popular fiction and film in the process.
Download or read book Lone Heroes and the Myth of the American West in Comic Books 1945 1962 written by David Huxley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of comics in the perpetuation of the myth of the American West. In particular, it looks at the ways in which lone central characters, and their acts of violence, are posited as heroic. In doing so, the book raises questions both about the role of women in a supposedly male space, in addition to the portrayal of Native Americans within the context of this violence. Various adaptations of historical figures, such as Buffalo Bill and Billy the Kid, as well as film and television stars such as The Lone Ranger and Dale Evans are examined in detail. Although concentrating on American comics, examples both from Britain and France are also analyzed.
Download or read book Thrilling Adventure Stories written by Richard Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Jason Goodman and Editor Jeff Rovin present the return of THRILLING ADVENTURE STORIES! Published in 1975, the two issues of this Atlas/Seaboard comic magazine featured multi-genre excitement ranging from barbaric prehistory to the dystopic future, from feudal Japan to wartime Europe. Atlas Originals is proud to continue that tradition with four tales: TARGITT 2021 by Richard S. Meyers, starring the two-fisted crimebuster, his associate Man-Stalker...and a villainess whose arrival will shock and delight! BOG BEAST by John Albano and Badia Romero, a super-science tale originally created in 1975 for the Atlas/Seaboard horror comic WEIRD TALES OF THE MACABRE and unpublished on these shores until now. BONUS: the mock-up of that unused issue #3 cover featuring a Jeff Jones painting. SECOND COMING by Sam Rovin, a companion piece to the WRECAGE saga featuring the climactic return of one of the first and greatest Atlas/Seaboard superheroes. MAGIC TO-DO by Richard H. Levey starring Doctor Klutz, a character originally conceived as the companion to a chic and plucky funny book figure. The semi-hero was shelved when the line folded but is back to solve an ages-old mystery involving one of the darkest Atlas/Seaboard characters.
Download or read book Masters of Imagination written by Mike Benton and published by Taylor Publishing Company (TX). This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masters of Imagination presents an overview of the careers and works of the 13 world-class cartoonists elected to the Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame. More than 250 full-color illustrations plus illuminating commentary by Mike Benton offer insight into the creative processes that made these artists the very best in the world.
Download or read book The Art of Harvey Kurtzman written by Denis Kitchen and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive anthology of the pioneering cartoonist and creator of Mad magazine, featuring 100s of classic and never-before-seeen illustrations. It’s difficult to overstate Harvey Kurtzman’s influence on pop culture. He discovered Robert Crumb and gave Gloria Steinem her first job in publishing. Terry Gilliam also started at his side, where he met John Cleese, and the genesis of Monty Python was formed. And Art Spiegelman has stated on record that he owes his career to him. Harvey Kurtzman was an astonishingly talented and influential artist, writer, editor, and satirist. The creator of MAD and Playboy’s “Little Annie Fanny” was called, “One of the most important figures in postwar America” by the New York Times. Kurtzman’s groundbreaking “realistic” war comics of the early ’50s and various satirical publications (MAD, Trump, Humbug, and Help!) had an immense impact on popular culture, inspiring a generation of underground cartoonists and comedians. The Art of Harvey Kurtzman includes hundreds of never-before-seen illustrations, paintings, pencil sketches, newly discovered lost E.C. Comics layouts, color compositions, illustrated correspondence, and vintage photos from the rich Kurtzman archives.
Download or read book Superman written by Ian Gordon and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he still be an American icon when the country itself has undergone so much change? Superman: Persistence of an American Icon examines the many iterations of the character in comic books, comic strips, radio series, movie serials, feature films, television shows, animation, toys, and collectibles over the past eight decades. Demonstrating how Superman’s iconic popularity cannot be attributed to any single creator or text, comics expert Ian Gordon embarks on a deeper consideration of cultural mythmaking as a collective and dynamic process. He also outlines the often contentious relationships between the various parties who have contributed to the Superman mythos, including corporate executives, comics writers, artists, nostalgic commentators, and collectors. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of Superman’s appearances in comics and other media, Gordon also digs into comics archives to reveal the prominent role that fans have played in remembering, interpreting, and reimagining Superman’s iconography. Gordon considers how comics, film, and TV producers have taken advantage of fan engagement and nostalgia when selling Superman products. Investigating a character who is equally an icon of American culture, fan culture, and consumer culture, Superman thus offers a provocative analysis of mythmaking in the modern era.
Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standard Guide to Golden Age Comics written by Alex G. Malloy and published by KP Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate comic book heroes like Superman, Batman and Captain Marvel take center stage in this comprehensive guide to Golden Age comics. Collectors and dealers are sure to seek out a reference devoted to the era that began in 1938 with Superman and concluded in 1956 with the debut of Barry Allen as The Flash.This companion reference to Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide offers collectors an affordable and portable resource for use at conventions and within their own library. A collection of 1,000 comic book covers of hundreds of Golden Age comics featured in this resource, which also includes an easy-to-use tab reference for identifying and pricing. This is the one Golden Age guide collectors will look to again and again!· 1,000 photos assist with quick identification· Contains pricing and information on comic book legends like Superman and Batman· Updated values help collectors accurately assess issues
Download or read book Korean War Comic Books written by Leonard Rifas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten war," and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics--both newsstand offerings and government propaganda--used fictions to justify the unpopular war as necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and issues, including the war's origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold War espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military, mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities.
Download or read book Comic Book Nation written by Bradford W. Wright and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of comic books from the 1930s to 9/11.
Download or read book The Official 1981 Price Guide to Comic Science Fiction Books written by Tom Hudgeons and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comic Bks Overs 18 written by Robert M. Overstreet and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the ultimate authority on comic book values, this expanded and updated guide lists over 80,000 prices for all mainstream comic books published in America--from 1901 to the present day. Includes photos, a listing of comic book shops, marketing tips and publication dates. Illustrated. (Antiques/Collectibles)
Download or read book The Comic Art Collection Catalog written by Michigan State University. Libraries. Special Collections Division and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive dictionary available on comic art produced around the world. The catalog provides detailed information about more than 60,000 cataloged books, magazines, scrapbooks, fanzines, comic books, and other materials in the Michigan State University Libraries, America's premiere library comics collection. The catalog lists both comics and works about comics. Each book or serial is listed by title, with entries as appropriate under author, subject, and series. Besides the traditional books and magazines, significant collections of microfilm, sound recordings, vertical files, and realia (mainly T-shirts) are included. Comics and related materials are grouped by nationality (e.g., French comics) and genre (e.g., funny animal comics). Several times larger than any previously published bibliography, list, or catalog on the comic arts, this unique international dictionary catalog is indispensible for all scholars and students of comics and the broad field of popular culture.
Download or read book Empire s Nursery written by Brian Rouleau and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order. Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children’s literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country’s command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children’s literature thereby helped to disguise dominion’s unsavory nature. The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.
Download or read book The Official Overstreet written by House of Collectibles and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 1991-05-14 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bible of the comic book industry is updated for 2002 with Web site information, tips about grading and caring for comics, and more than 1,500 black-and-white photos.
Download or read book The Official Overstreet written by Robert M. Overstreet and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 2003 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The bible for all comic book collectors' is not an exaggeration for this dependable guide...an indispensable part of any comic book collector's library [and] a standard reference that has stood the test of time." -- "Maine Antique Digest "The Official(R) Overstreet(R) Comic Book Price Guide is the one-volume, professional sourcebook for America's most popular collectible which no comic book collector or investor can afford to be without. This incredible 33rd edition brings you more information than ever before, including: LATEST PRICING INFORMATION From the early 1800s to the present, this is the most comprehensive resource of comic books and graphic novels, listed alphabetically by title, illustrated, and priced according to its condition. No other guide provides a more complete record of existing comic books and their prices. MARKET TRENDS AND INSIDERS' TIPS With the renowned Overstreet Market Report by Robert M. Overstreet, which also includes many important tips from other experts in the comic book industry, this guide contains all the current information that is circulating throughout this hot collecting area. You will find the latest titles, the strongest demands, the most valuable issues, and the newest finds in old comics. BUYING AND SELLING KNOW HOW Packed with essential information on grading, collecting and restoration of comic books, this book gives you everything you need to build and maintain a substantial comic book collection. FABULOUS PHOTOS More than 1,500 black and white photos of those unforgettable covers -- "plus the celebrated all-color Cover Gallery of your favorite comic books throughout the ages -- fill the book. SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLES * X-Men 2 -- Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the X-Men * The debut of the Sub-Mariner * The Original Super-Team - The Justice Society of America BUY IT USE IT BECOME AN EXPERT
