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This book was the foundation for my lifelong pursuit of all things comics (especially early fanzines). The stories told and the history behind so many great comic books, companies and creators is something that if done well, can ignite a fire in your soul, and this book did just that!In fact, I remember buying this for my dad's birthday in the early 70's. Not because he was into comics, but because it fascinated me (especially the pictures). And while I know it was wrong, that book has become on...
This book is not a history of the comic book in the strictest sense of the term. It is rather a collection of essays each of which deals with a particular topic with each essay being written by a different author (all of them well-known, at least to SF and/or comic fans). Most of the essays deal with comic books as such, however there are two that don't. One deals with the Thimble Theatre comic strip, which is where Popeye initially appeared. That essay leaves this person wanting to read at leas...
In the dark days before the Internet, genre fans often shared ideas and concepts through fanzines. Beginning with the first issue the Hugo-winning Xero (1960-1963), comics played a central role with the regular column "All in Color for a Dime," featuring an extraordinary cast of rotating writers. Lupoff (who co-edited Xero) and Thompson selected eleven pieces for inclusion in All in Color for a Dime. Highlights from the entertaining book include Ted White on M.C. Gaines, Lupoff covering Captain
I second Chuck's thoughts on this. I read it a long time ago, before I was even aware that Steranko had anything out. It gave me an appreciation for the reprints that were common at the time.
This book started a life long love affair with Comics and pop culture. It's really a collection of essays about Golden Age comics characters from some of the industry's most recognizable names of the day.
YES YES YESthe book that got me interest in comics history
This is an excellent early survey of comics history and fandom with nostalgic articles from some of the pioneers of the genre.
This book is for the hardcore fan of the golden age of comics but if you are not one it will be boring. The essays in this book are by adults who grew up in the golden age period of the 1940s whose love of them is fueled by nostalgia. In the comic book buyers guide I used to read before it folded there is time in a childhood when media you consume is regarded as golden memories and brings a warm feeling of nostalgia. It is nostalgia that informs this book as the essayists recall superman, comic
I read this back in the mid 1970s. It’s considered something of a classic. When a friend ran across this copy and thought it looked like something I’d like, I decided to give it another read 45 years later.The perspective is very interesting. Published in 1970, it’s a series of short essays on the wonders of comic’s Golden Age of the 30s and 40s. These writers, all boys during the Golden Age, ooh and ahh over their faves, but have little good to say about the Silver Age of the 1960s. Pretty amus...
Oh, how I loved my comic books when I was a kid. I had a shelf dedicated to them and would read and trade with all my friends. Looking back, I surely wish I had some of them now since collectors have made certain editions of them very valuable. But they were valuable to me even then for the adventure of the costumed super-heroes and their sidekicks.This short little book is 50 years old and the articles it contains were written as the Golden Age of Comics had ended and the Silver Age was soon to...
Who knew "Popeye" was such a brilliant strip????
