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I have seen two three-hour documentaries on comic book history, but they each just barely skimmed the surface and put a glossy sheen on the circumstances leading up to the birth of the comic book phenomenon and subsequent developments. Gerard Jones' book (originally published in 2005) scrapes off a bit of the surface polish to show how the original creators of what we now know as comic books were a mixed bag of earnest writers and artists who wanted to express their interests, and the sometimes
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