The World Encyclopedia of Comics / edited by Maurice Horn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horn, Maurice.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Dictionaries.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

784 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Avon Books [a division of The Hearst Corporation], [1977]

Contents:

Comics around the world. Comics of the world: a short history; A world chronology of comic art from the 18th century to the present; The world of comics: an analytical summary

Alphabetical entries, A-J

Color in the Comics

Alphabetical entries, K-Z

More about the Comics. A history of newspaper syndication / by Richard Marschall

Appendices. A: Code of the Comics Magazine Association of America; B: Directory of Comic Book Publishers; C: Reuben Award Winners; D: Directory of Newspaper Syndicates.

Notes:

First Avon Printing, September, 1977."

"The Contributors: Manuel Auad, The Philippines, Bill Blackbeard, U.S., Gianni Bono, Italy, Joe Brancatelli, U.S., Mark Evanier, U.S., Wolfgang Fuchs, Germany, Luis Gasca, Spain, Dennis Gifford, Great Britain, Peter Harris, Canada, Maurice Horn, France/U.S., Orvy Jundis, The Philippines, Hisao Kato, Japan, Richard Marschall, U.S. Ervin Rutemagić, Yugoslavia, John Ryan, Australia."

"Avon publishers of Bard, Camelot and Discus Books."

"First published in the United States of America by Chelsea House Publishers, New York in 1976."

"$30 in Hardcover Edition! World History! Analytical Summary! Over 1,200 Entries! Chronology! Bibliography! Glossary! 10,000 Name Index! Special 64 Page Color Section! 850 Illustrations!"--Cover.

"'The World Encyclopedia of Comics' is the first book to cover the entire field of comic art in all of its aspects - artistic, cultural, sociological and commercial - on a global scale."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-739) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".

ISBN:

0380017350 :

OCLC:

3411561