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Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics

Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics

Les Daniels

Presents a history of Marvel comics, profiling the creative artists, the writers, and the superheroes who have made Marvel the largest comic book publisher
The Routledge Companion to Comics

The Routledge Companion to Comics

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... and Critical Introduction, London: Sage. Zimmerman, R. and Severin, J. (2003) Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather, New York: Marvel. 42 COMICS AND LITERATURE Hannah Miodrag Comics and the Literature 389 COMICS AND LINGUISTICS.
Previews August 2014: Issue 311

Previews August 2014: Issue 311

Allyn Gibson

Read product descriptions and storylines for hundreds of English-language comic books and graphic novels from the top comic book publishers such as Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Avatar Press, ...
Previews July 2014: Issue 310

Previews July 2014: Issue 310

Allyn Gibson

Read product descriptions and storylines for hundreds of English-language comic books and graphic novels from the top comic book publishers such as Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, IDW Publishing, Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Avatar Press, ...
Sal Buscema: Comics' Fast and Furious Artist

Sal Buscema: Comics' Fast and Furious Artist

Various

In 1968, Sal Buscema joined Marvel Comics and quickly became one of their most dependable artists.
Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee

Stan Lee

In a remarkable autobiography, the creator of Marvel Comics describes his youth in the Bronx, his early years publishing comic books during World War II, the rise of the Marvel empire, and his creation of such legendary superheroes as the X ...
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes

Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes

Lillian Robinson

Feminisms and Superheroes Lillian Robinson. Marvel, Mary ix, x, 68-74, 109 Marvel Comics x, 5-6, 67, 87-88, 106-110 Mary, Virgin 15 Mattelart, Armand see How to Read Donald Duck Mickey Mouse, see Disney characters Morrison, Toni 1 ...
Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel

G. Willow Wilson

"Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out as she takes the Marvel Universe by storm!
Ms. Marvel (20 Ans Panini Comics): Metamorphose

Ms. Marvel (20 Ans Panini Comics): Metamorphose

G. Willow Wilson

Kamala Khan est une jeune fille de confession musulmane qui se découvre d'extraordinaires capacités.
America

America

Marvel Comics

Then she can get on with her first assignment: a field trip to the front lines of World War II - with Captain America as her wingman! COLLECTING: AMERICA 1-6
The Adventures of Red Sonja #19:

The Adventures of Red Sonja #19:

Roy Thomas

Ashes and Emblems! Originally published in the Marvel Comics' series "Red Sonja: She Devil With a Sword #13
American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel ...

American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel ...

Anthony Mills

The latter two, in particular, were subjects of experimental serums, which, Cord Scott suggests, harkens back to the “get fit quick” ads ofthe 1930s, and may even reflect the practice of eugenics in the United States and Europe at the time.120 ...
Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments

Narrative Structure in Comics: Making Sense of Fragments

Barbara Postema

An examination of the narrative and pictorial qualities of comics and how these help comics to communicate and create meaning.
Image Comics: The Road to Independence:

Image Comics: The Road to Independence:

George Khoury

"Image Comics is a comics and graphic novels publisher formed in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists.
Will Eisner: Conversations

Will Eisner: Conversations

Will Eisner

Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's ...
Adventures of Red Sonja

Adventures of Red Sonja

Roy Thomas

Featuring issues of the original Marvel Comics series, each page has been re-mastered for this volume! Plus, legendary Red Sonja writer and former Editor-in-Chief, Roy Thomas, provides an introduction!
Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century ...

Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century ...

Jared Gardner

Beginning with the parallel development of narrative comics at the turn of the 20th century, comics have long been a form that invites—indeed requires—readers to help shape the stories being told.
Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page

Blair Davis

Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to ...
Burnside

Burnside

William Marvel

" Although Burnside's performance included an occasional lapse, Marvel argues that he deserved far better treatment than he has received from his peers and subsequently from historians.
Star Trek: the Classic UK Comics Volume 1: The Classic UK Comics

Star Trek: the Classic UK Comics Volume 1: The Classic UK Comics

Jim Baikie

The stories were serialized, generally 2 to 3 pages at a time, in 257 weekly magazines spanning five years and 37 storylines. These extremely rare comics have never been published in the United States.
Best Erotic Comics 2009

Best Erotic Comics 2009

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"Best Erotic Comics 2009" has carefully culled the hottest work from today's literary/ art comics -- and the highest- quality work from today's adult comics -- along with some original unpublished work, and a couple of vintage gems.
Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s

Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s

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Rayna Denison, “American Superheroes in Japanese Hands: Supaidaman,” in Superheroes on World Screens, edited by Rayna Denison and Rachel Mizsei- Ward (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2015), 59. 20. A version of 3 Dev  ...
Comics and Narration

Comics and Narration

Thierry Groensteen

This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, ...
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation

Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation

Carolyn Cocca

Specifically, the book explores the production, representations, and receptions of prominent transmedia female superheroes from their creation to the present: Wonder Woman; Batgirl and Oracle; Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel; Buffy the ...
Comics and Narration

Comics and Narration

Thierry Groensteen

This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's ground-breaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, ...
Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

Frederick Luis Aldama

Picking up from his pioneering book Your Brain on Latino Comics, he has gathered an insightful group of authors in Multicultural Comics that deftly engage, the intersectionality of race and identity, image and idea, theory and methods, and ...
God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World ...

God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World ...

Natsu Onoda Power

God of Comics chronicles Tezuka''s life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics. The book emphasizes Tezuka''s use of intertextuality.
Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy 1000 Dot-to-dot Book

Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy 1000 Dot-to-dot Book

Thomas Pavitte

You'll marvel at the incredible puzzles in this book!
Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the ...

Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the ...

Will Eisner

AFTER NEARLY THIRTY PRINTINGS, WILL EISNER'S Comics and Sequential Art is well established as a primary treatise on the theory and mechanics of modern comics. Since its inception in 1985 the book has regularly been subject to ...

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