Action! Mystery! Thrills! - 200 Great Comic Book Covers 1936-45

Klappentext 200 classic covers unfurled in full-sized glory! Zusammenfassung In the past! comic book publishers realized fairly quickly that if theyspent a little extra to hire a good cover artist! they could fill the insideswith mediocrity and still make a sizable profit. All it took was a strikingcover to entice thousands of kids to fork over their dimes. As such! scores ofcover artists are represented in Action! Mystery! Thrills! 200 Great Comic BookCovers 1936-45: Carl Barks! Charles Biro! Dick Briefer! L.B. Cole! Jack Cole!Reed Crandall! Will Eisner! Bill Everett! Lou Fine! Walt Kelly! Jack Kirby! MacRaboy! and Alex Schomburg. Every comic-book genre is explored! from superhero todetective to Western to funny animal.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Sadowski, Greg Sadowski, Sadowski Greg
• Assisted by: Greg Sadowski (Editor), Greg Sadowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9781606994948
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-494-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 204 mm x 265 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Comic book & cartoon art, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Comic book and cartoon artwork