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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 134,266 ratings
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
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4.07 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America
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3.87 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
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Comics and Sequential Art
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4.11 avg rating — 6,312 ratings
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
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4.34 avg rating — 9,921 ratings
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Kirby: King of Comics
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4.12 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
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4.05 avg rating — 7,593 ratings
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Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative
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4.08 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
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Voyage in Noise: Warren Ellis and the Demise of Western Civilization
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4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Grant Morrison: The Early Years
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4.15 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Gotham City 14 Miles: 14 Essays on Why the 1960s Batman TV Series Matters
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3.85 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
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3.85 avg rating — 8,613 ratings
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Teenagers from the Future: Essays on the Legion of Super-Heroes
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3.88 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
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3.76 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Reading Comics
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3.72 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen
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3.81 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen
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4.39 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Keeping the World Strange: A Planetary Guide
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3.83 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles
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4.03 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Devil is in the Details: Examining Matt Murdock and Daredevil
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3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan
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4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Mutant Cinema: The X-Men Trilogy from Comics to Screen
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3.69 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 17,058 ratings
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Classics on Infinite Earths: The Justice League and DC Crossover Canon
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4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
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3.95 avg rating — 419 ratings
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1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die: The Ultimate Guide to Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Manga
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3.83 avg rating — 340 ratings
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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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4.13 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
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3.94 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
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3.92 avg rating — 259 ratings
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All in Color for a Dime
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3.96 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Superman: The Unauthorized Biography
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3.91 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
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4.03 avg rating — 1,248 ratings
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Kimota! The Miracleman Companion
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4.01 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Comic-Book Book
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3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross
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4.34 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution
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4.03 avg rating — 115 ratings
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So, You Want to Be a Comic Book Artist?
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3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Comic Book Heroes: The First History of Modern Comic Books - From the Silver Age to the Present
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4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles from the DC Universe
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4.34 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies
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4.42 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking
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3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Imágenes del desencanto: Nueva historieta española 1980-1986
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics
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3.94 avg rating — 653 ratings
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The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1
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4.39 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution
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3.78 avg rating — 262 ratings
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The Batcave Companion
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4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Great Comic Book Heroes
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4.13 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe
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3.96 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed
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3.67 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Mondo Erotica: The Art of Baldazzini
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel
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3.64 avg rating — 938 ratings
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Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form – Twelve Revolutions in Digital Publishing, Creators' Rights, and the Future of Storytelling
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3.90 avg rating — 3,859 ratings
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500 Essential Graphic Novels
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3.83 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War
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4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings
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I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! (The Complete Works of Fletcher Hanks, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
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4.32 avg rating — 3,149 ratings
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La historieta argentina: Una historia
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Swedish Comics History
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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El Domicilio de La Aventura (Colección Signos y Cultura)
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Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
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4.19 avg rating — 402 ratings
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The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 2
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4.32 avg rating — 44 ratings
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After our era: PrehistorY
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Buscados vivos
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Comic Book History of Comics
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4.12 avg rating — 688 ratings
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Al Jaffee's Mad Life
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3.95 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience
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3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman
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4.20 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book
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4.32 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
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La Historieta en la edad de la razón
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4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Héctor Germán Oesterheld: de El Eternauta a Montoneros
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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
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3.90 avg rating — 203 ratings
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El Comic Underground Espanol, 1970 1980
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Oesterheld en primera persona (HGO: su vida y su obra, volumen 1)
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Oesterheld y Nuestras Invasiones Extraterrestres: Ensayo (Pack: volumen 1 y 2)
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Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Historietas a diario. Las tiras cómicas argentinas: De Mafalda a nuestros días
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Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight
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4.05 avg rating — 2,777 ratings
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El aventurador: una lectura de Oesterheld
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
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4.03 avg rating — 377 ratings
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DC Comics Covergirls
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4.05 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!: 2000AD & Judge Dredd: The Secret History
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3.94 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Journalism
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4.25 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
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War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film
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3.90 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan
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3.84 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Studies in Popular Culture
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3.84 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know
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3.70 avg rating — 347 ratings
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Oesterheld en tercera persona (HGO: su vida y su obra, volumen 2)
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art
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3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels
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4.13 avg rating — 854 ratings
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La novela gráfica
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4.12 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Lexicon of Comicana
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4.22 avg rating — 73 ratings
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La historieta salvaje. Primeras series argentinas (1907-1929)
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4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Southeast Asian Cartoon Art: History, Trends and Problems
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books 1938-1950
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Comic Book Historians Presents...: Frank Thorne the Blue, Wizard of the Comic Arts
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Breccia, el Viejo: conversaciones con Juan Sasturain
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4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer
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The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity
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Man of Rock: A Biography of Joe Kubert
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4.10 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Forging a New Medium: The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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