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Yoc:
I didn't get the feeling that Michael Chabon was overly angry in his C&C book but I guess we can see it different.  I did have fun spotting the different stories he pulled together for the book.  Jim Steranko himself was an influence.  If you can find Jim's books they are a fun read.  Like many I wish he had continued with the series.

-Yoc

tilliban:
I strongly and highly recommend

COMICS BETWEEN THE PANELS

by Steve Duin and Mike Richardson. Came out at Dark Horse in 1998.
Still available for order there https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/92-443/Comics-Between-the-Panels-HC
or at Amazon, I guess.

It's made up like an encyclopedia, but is done with a lot of fun and tells us the most wondrous stories about artists, dealers, collectors, comic book characters and so on...
This is really THE book for insiders, folks.

And if you dig the gory and trashy horror mags of the 70s, Mike Howletts's

THE WEIRD WORLD OF EERIE PUBLICATIONS

is excessively researched, beautifully done - and a milestone of comics history.
Have a "look inside" on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Weird-World-Eerie-Publications/dp/1932595872

bminor:
And of course Evanier's"

"Kirby - King of Comics"

Also the the two disc special edition of the Fantastic Four movie from ten years ago a nice Kirby documentary.

B.

Crimson-Blue-Green:
I have "The Comic Book Heroes" by Will Jacobs and Gerald Jones from 1985. I was a bit disappointed when I recently skimmed through it to find it focused mostly on DC and Marvel. I understand an updated edition was publushed in the 1990s. I haven't read that version.

I also have "The Encyclopedia of Superheroes" by Jeff Rovin, also from 1985. This book has a couple factual errors but is a mostly good resource for reading brief bios of all sorts of characters. I discovered heroes such as The Clock, Shock Gibson (listed twice by accident as The Human Dynamo and in the late arrivals section), Doctor Nemisis, Cat-Man and I boned up on my history of The Blue Beetle (all versions up to that year). 

Yoc:
I've just started reading 'Jackie Ormes : the first African American woman cartoonist' by by Goldstein, Nancy from 2008.
If you don't know about her there is a site on her here - http://jackieormes.com/

-Yoc

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