The great comic book heroes 19655/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Right: "The Great Comic Book Heroes" 1965 Left: "The Funnies: An American Idiom" 1963. We'd have to wait until the early-mid 1960s (probably starting with White & Abel's "The Funnies: An American Idiom" in 1963) to see any influx of titles. The first book of ANY kind I ever specifically asked for was "The Great Comic Book Heroes" by Jules Feiffer (1965) and I still covet my original copy! Through the years I've added whatever I could find about comics to my library, but it seems that other than a few published works like "Comics and Their Creators" by Martin Sheridan (1942), "The Comics" by Coulton Waugh (1949), and the infamous "critique" of comic books, "Seduction of the Innocent" by Fredric Wertham (1954), there were very few mainstream works published that were exclusively dedicated to the comics industry. Having been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid, any books written about them and the industry itself has always grabbed my attention. ![]()
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