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Fantastic Adventures in the Comics - Rockets, Genies, and Bug-Eyed Monsters, 1940s-1980s

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 04.12.2025

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Science fiction and fantasy comics present colorful if disparate visions of the future, from post-apocalyptic nightmare scenarios and prophetic explorations of technical advances to startling stories of space colonization. This book analyzes the genre from the 1940s to the 1980s, examining works such as tales of virile adventurers and their space "babes" to more thought-provoking stories of the clash of alien cultures and frightening, ironic looks at the results of outer space travel.
This volume scrutinizes the output of publishers such as DC Comics (Strange Adventures and Tales of the Unexpected, etc.); EC comics (Weird Science and Weird Fantasies); Marvel Comics (various series with monsters and grotesque alien creatures); Charlton (numerous fantasy magazines); American Comics Group (Forbidden Worlds and Adventures into the Unknown); as well as comics from Dell, Gold Key, Avon, Fiction House, and many others.


About the author

William Schoell is the author of numerous books about the performing arts and pop culture, and the writer of the blog Great Old Movies. He lives in New York.

Product details

Authors William Schoell, William Schoell
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 04.12.2025, delayed
 
EAN 9781476694757
ISBN 978-1-4766-9475-7
No. of pages 268
Illustrations Raster,schwarz-weiss
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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