This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You ll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It s an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally...

This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You ll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It s an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally...