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It was an age of mighty heroes, misunderstood monsters, and complex villains. With the publication, in November 1961, of Fantastic Four No. 1, comi...

A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what lifes throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a...

This deluxe edition of David Day's hugely popular A Dictionary of Tolkien is a handsome hardback with an embossed and foiled cover, gilt edges and ...

Manga symbols manpu in Japanese - are iconic or symbolic expressions used uniquely in manga, such as sweat drops, popping veins, and smoke puffs. ...

Things looked bleak for comic books throughout the 1970s because of plummeting sell-through rates. With each passing year, the newsstand became les...

Since 2000, From The Tomb has terrified readers worldwide, as the preeminent magazine on the history of horror comics, with stellar writing and int...

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality,...

In this book, David Walton explores European comic-book biker publications as a subgenre of popular culture. Using a multidisciplinary approach, he...

Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's Writing offers new insight into what it means to write relational...

GEORGE?KHOURY?(author of The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore and Kimota:?The Miracleman?Companion) presents a love letter?to his personal golden ...

Inside its cover, this edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 30...

Inside its covers, this edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 3...

Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the per...

Crime fiction is the single most popular genre in international publishing and Australia has some of the finest practitioners when it comes to walk...

For its second issue, Comic Book Creator magazine the newvoice of the comics medium pays tribute to the late, great Joe Kubert ina 160-page, dou...

Printing terror takes a fascinating look at American horror comics in the Cold War era, from the 1940s to the 1970s. It reveals how these comics bo...

Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcaults Yellow Kid, Winsor McCays Little Nemo, and ...

Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcaults Yellow Kid, Winsor McCays Little Nemo, and ...

Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on postWorld War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique...

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimatio...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy provides an excellent way of looking at some intriguing issues in philosophy, from vegetarianism and Artificia...