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Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: bminor on March 11, 2011, 05:18:36 PM ---I would like to thank everybody for all the input on this thread!
Relating to comics and their history.
Is there a list books out there(not magazines necessarily) that relate to the history of comic books?
I know of a few and have only a couple of them. I am trying to acquire the best of the best of the history of comic books.

Those being:
1. All in Color for a Dime, by Don and Maggie Thompson (read this a teenager back in the early 70's)
2. Steranko History of Comics, vol. 1 and 2 ( I wish he would have written the other proposed volumes in this series)
3. Kirby, King of Comics
4. Superman, by Les Daniels
5. Strange and Stranger, The World of Steve Ditko, by Blake Bell
6. The Great Super Heroes, by Jules Pfeifer (original edition)

I heard once a few  years ago the Cat Ywrwonde ( spelled right) had put together a fantastic book about Steve Ditko, but a flood destroyed the manuscript. Does anybody else know anything else about this book?

Thanks everybody!!




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Here's a bunch:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=comix&x=0&y=0#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=comics+history&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Acomics+history

There's one about Ditko called "Strange and Stranger:The World of Steve Ditko":
http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Stranger-World-Steve-Ditko/dp/1560979216

I remember liking this one when I was kid in the 70s:
"Comix: A History of Comic Books in America" by Les Daniels

There's a neat one "The Silver Age of Comic Book Art" by Arlen Schumer

josemas:

--- Quote from: bminor on March 11, 2011, 05:18:36 PM ---
I heard once a few  years ago the Cat Ywrwonde ( spelled right) had put together a fantastic book about Steve Ditko, but a flood destroyed the manuscript. Does anybody else know anything else about this book?


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That may have been the flood in California that damaged much of Eclipse Comic's works.  IIRC, Cat was working for Eclipse then and the book was going to be published by them.  Again, IIRC, Eclipse was already on kinda' shaky grounds financially when they got hit by the flood and the Ditko book and some other projects just never got back on track before Eclipse folded.

Best

Joe

darkmark (RIP):
It's tragic.  Nowadays the manuscript would be on a computer database, which could be recovered, flood or not.

bminor:
Forgive my ignorance. What is IIRC?

JonTheScanner:
If I recall correctly it means just that :-)

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