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JVJ (RIP):
I just read some more of this and it is ALL third- to fifth-hand regurgitation of other people's work and research and much of it is mis-interpreted with errors added. Please do NOT recommend this site as an accurate history of the early comics. It literally turns my stomach to read crap like this.
Granted, the guy went to a lot of effort to do this, but it both perpetuates existing errors and adds a multitude of new ones.
Peace, Jim (|:{>
narfstar:
It is sad the fallacies get as much credence as the facts because most do not know the difference. Much of historical "fact" has become such simply by quoting false info as fact.
CharlieRock:
Where can I read more history in this style then online? This was the site that popped up most on my search engines at work. I am home now and maybe can get on more websites since my net here isn't restricted.
Ami_GFX:
The history of Comics is a vast subject and I don't know of a single site that covers it all. I can recommend a few books that cover some of the era that Thecomicsbooks.com talks about.
All in color for a dime by Richard Lupoff and Don Thompson. The golden age from the perspective of growing up in it.
Comix, A history of comic books in America by Les Daniels--my mom gave me this book when I was about 12. I don't think she noticed the chapter on Underground comics. She probably just ordered it from a book club and gave it to me for Christmas.
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu. I found this book in a pile of free books and it reawakened my interest in comics--especially golden age comics--which I hadn't pursued much since my mid 20s.
There are lots more out there. As I said, the history of comics is a vast subject. I recently found out about the "Atlas Implosion" which I never even heard of in my teenage comic colecting days. One of the best references I found on the the subject was an article by JVJ--THE GREAT ATLAS IMPLOSION by Jim Vadeboncoeur--which I managed to read online but there is another article in an issue of Alterego about this important but obscure event in the history of comics that I am going to have to buy the hardcopy for because it isn't available online.
The the comicbooks.com is very sloppy, not just in fact and research but basic grammer and editing as well. I liked the basic chronological approach but it needs to be done a lot better. I did find it amusing to read Werthams "It's still murder" article about the comics code which I'd never seen before.
josemas:
--- Quote from: Ami_GFX on January 26, 2011, 07:24:38 PM ---
There are lots more out there. As I said, the history of comics is a vast subject. I recently found out about the "Atlas Implosion" which I never even heard of in my teenage comic colecting days. One of the best references I found on the the subject was an article by JVJ--THE GREAT ATLAS IMPLOSION by Jim Vadeboncoeur--which I managed to read online but there is another article in an issue of Alterego about this important but obscure event in the history of comics that I am going to have to buy the hardcopy for because it isn't available online.
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The Alter Ego article about the Atlas Implosion that I believe you're referring to was written by Tom Lammers who later published an expanded version of it in a booklet which he has made available to members of the Timely-Atlas Comics Yahoo group of which he is also a very active member.
Best
Joe
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