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The comic book makers / by Joe Simon with Jim Simon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Joe.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- United States.
- Cartoonists--United States--Biography.
- Cartoonists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lebanon, N.J. : Vanguard Productions, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this book, original Captain America creator, Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators who gave us Superman, Captain America, Archie, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man and more. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder; the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing dead-lines; the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose sub-committee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency; and dozens of other fascinating personalities.Will Eisner said, "The Comic Book Makers is like a school reunion, lavish with anecdotes that fill in the gap of threadbare memory. The Comic Book Makers is avery valuable work by a member of one of the most important teams in comic book history. Joe Simon deserves applause."
- Contents:
- Foreword: The Butcher, the Baker, the Comic Book Maker 7
- Chapter 1 In the Beginning 12
- Chapter 2 Growing Up Before Comic Books 16
- Chapter 3 Working for the Newspapers 20
- Chapter 4 New York, Here I Come 24
- Chapter 5 The King of Comics 29
- Lou Fine 34
- Chapter 6 A New Breed of Publisher 37
- Blue Bolt 38
- Chapter 7 Enter Jack Kirby 40
- Chapter 8 Captain America
- Our Answer to Hitler 42
- Chapter 9 Pocket Comics
- Two for the Price of One (Almost) 48
- Chapter 10 Captain Marvel
- A Crude Beginning 50
- Chapter 11 Hangman and the Threat of Litigation 52
- Chapter 12 Superman vs. Captain Marvel 54
- Chapter 13 Crime Does Not Pay? 56
- Chapter 14 The Move to DC Comics 58
- Chapter 15 Captain America Goes Hollywood 62
- Chapter 16 The Non-Superheroes 68
- Sad Sack 70
- Chapter 17 A House in the Country 72
- Alfred Harvey 74
- Dick Tracy 76
- Chapter 18 Post-War Bust 78
- The Duke of Broadway 97
- Chapter 19 On the Ranch 103
- Boys' Ranch Action Portfolio 105
- Chapter 20 The Years of Romance 109
- Chapter 21 Straight into the Third Dimension 114
- Chapter 22 Horror, Crime and Punishment 118
- Beautiful Freak 131
- Chapter 23 Mainline
- Simon and Kirby's Own Company 137
- The Legend of Bullseye 139
- Bullseye Action Portfolio 141
- Chapter 24 The Accountant
- Fish in a Barrel 147
- Chapter 25 A Killer Among Us 137
- Chapter 26 Burstein, the Unknown Writer 154
- Chapter 27 Sick
- A Healthy Departure 160
- The New Age of Comics 170
- Chapter 28 The Birth of Spider-Man 173
- Chapter 29 The Copyright Capers 186
- '60s and '70s Comics 187
- Chapter 30 Still Later 188.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1887591338
- 1887591354
- 1887591346
- OCLC:
- 52444175
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