The Photo Journal Guide To Comic Books Photo Journal Guide To Marvel Comics

"21,000 color illustrations. $20,000,000.00 of collectible comic books. Complete cataloging system for comic books, 1935-1965. Relative value index for 50,000 comic books. Scarcity index; relative rarity of collector's comics, many illustrations in this book are of the only copy left in existence."--Dust jacket.

What the first Photo-Journal volumes did for the classic comics of the Golden and Silver Ages, these beautiful hardcovers do for Marvel Comics, reproducing over 7,700 covers from the dawn of the Marvel Age to 1986! Here are the classic runs of fan-favorite and forgotten titles - reproducing each cover in full-color, photographed from the best possible copies of each issue available. Volume 3 features an introduction by Stan "The Man" Lee, as well as runs of such Silver to Modern Age Marvel comics as The Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Captain America, Doctor Strange, The Incredible Hulk, and many, many more - all presented in a colorful, informative format; the perfect reference guide for any comic collector or historian! Volume 4 picks up where Volume 3 left off, and features runs of such Silver to Modern Age Marvel comics as Ka-Zar, Marvel Team-Up, Power Man, Tales to Astonish, Two-Gun Kid, Uncanny X-Men, and many, many more all presented in a colorful, informative format; the perfect reference guide for any comic collector or historian!

22,000 vivid color photographs of 20 million dollars worth of rare comic books; 1933-1965. Spend 1 minute looking at each illustration, 8 hours per day, Monday-Friday, it will take 9 weeks to view the entire two volumes. Comic books in the 1940's & 1950's dominated the American scene until television took over in the 1960's. Most comics were thrown away & forgotten. Truely a lost & underappreciated artform - until now! Superman, Batman, Captain America are blazing paths across the silver screen to remind us of the Golden Past. THE PHOTO-JOURNAL GUIDE is the most comprehensive reference book ever published. In addition to 22,000 photographs there are 40,000 comics listed by catalog number, value, scarcity, issue dates & contributing artists. There are comprehensive indexes by title, artists & character appearances. Also there are informative chapters on Social & Historical Impact, Restoration, Preservation & Storage, Collecting, Value, & Grading. $1,000,000 retail sets of THE PHOTO-JOURNAL GUIDE sold during the first 4 months of availability - without wholesalers! William Harroff, Book Collector: "It is truly one of the most beautiful books I possess in a sizable collection. Librarians & collectors who miss this reference work will be kicking themselves for years."

The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power. Atomic Comics examines how comic books, comic strips, and other cartoon media represented the Atomic Age from the early 1920s to the present. Through the exploits of superhero figures such as Atomic Man and Spiderman, as well as an array of nuclear adversaries and atomic-themed adventures, the public acquired a new scientific vocabulary and discovered the major controversies surrounding nuclear science. Ferenc Morton Szasz’s thoughtful analysis of the themes, content, and imagery of scores of comics that appeared largely in the United States and Japan offers a fascinating perspective on the way popular culture shaped American comprehension of the fissioned atom for more than three generations.

In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention. Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history of comics for older readers from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. He takes in the pioneering titles pre-First World War, the underground 'comix' of the 1960s and 1970s, 'fandom' in the 1970s and 1980s, and the boom of the 1980s and 1990s (including 'graphic novels' and Viz.). Covering comics from the United States, Europe and Japan, Adult Comics addresses such issues as the graphic novel in context, cultural overspill and the role of women. By taking a broad sweep, Sabin demonstrates that the widely-held notion that comics 'grew up' in the late 1980s is a mistaken one, largely invented by the media. Adult Comics: An Introduction is intended primarily for student use, but is written with the comic enthusiast very much in mind.

This work provides an extensive guide for students, fans, and collectors of Marvel Comics. Focusing on Marvel's mainstream comics, the author provides a detailed description of each comic along with a bibliographic citation listing the publication's title, writers/artists, publisher, ISBN (if available), and a plot synopsis. One appendix provides a comprehensive alphabetical index of Marvel and Marvel-related publications to 2005, while two other appendices provide selected lists of Marvel-related game books and unpublished Marvel titles.