Trying to trak down a book about the Golden Age.

[profpike]

One of the books that I never got but helped make me more of a golden age fan was a book that was published in the late 1970s I believe. It was a large size trade paperback book that had a bunch of GA covers in it. No Marvel or DC, all small publishers. It was where I first saw pictures of the Golden Age Dare Devil, The Arrow, The Flame, Hydro Man, Crime buster and others. Anyone have any idea what book this is?

[SuperScrounge]

Probably The Golden Age Of Comic Books: 1937-1945 by Richard O'Brien, Ballantine Books 1977.

Although there were some DC covers in it. Marvel didn't want any of their covers used, though.

[Yoc]

Got that one at the time as well.  It was pretty cool but for sure had DC in it.

[bminor]

Another great book that from that period that turned me onto comics when I was a teen was:

ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME!,

Each chapter was by a different author. Don & Maggie Thompson did one.
I remember checking it out at the local library back in the day.

B.

[profpike]

That is the book, thank you!

Funny I don't remember the DC characters and there's Supes, right on the cover. I guess I was most interested in the ones I didn't know.

[JonTheScanner]

Another great book that from that period that turned me onto comics when I was a teen was:

ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME!,

Each chapter was by a different author. Don & Maggie Thompson did one.
I remember checking it out at the local library back in the day.

B.

AICFAD was at least a decade earlier. It came out when I was in school I think probably 1966.

[bminor]

A couple of years ago I found a hard cover copy online and ordered it.
Fantastic condition.
It now sits on my "history of comics" shelf.
Which also includes Volumes 1 and 2 of "The Steranko History of Comics"
It was supposed to include 10 volumes when done.
I also used to have an original edition of
"The Great Comic Book Heroes", by Jules Feiffer, hardcover with reprints of all the early comic book heroes.
They have since reissued it, deleting all reprints sadly.
Apparently the early edition is worth a dollar or two.

B.
 

[Yoc]

We are in a new Golden Age for reprint collections as well as history and artist collections.  You could fill a bookshelf with them all now!
And that's not even mentioning all the good work going with scan sharing on sites like DCM and CB+!!

-Yoc