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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 216,217 ratings
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The Dreamer
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3.86 avg rating — 804 ratings
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Secret Identity (Secret Identity #1)
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3.62 avg rating — 2,651 ratings
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American Comics: A History
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3.82 avg rating — 409 ratings
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Forgotten All-Star: A Biography of Gardner Fox
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4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Comic-Book Book
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Comics and Sequential Art
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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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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Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics
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3.68 avg rating — 56 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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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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Alan Moore's Writing for Comics
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3.99 avg rating — 2,737 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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From Aargh! to Zap!: Harvey Kurtzman's Visual History of the Comics
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3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman
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3.89 avg rating — 683 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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The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1
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4.39 avg rating — 75 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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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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The Penguin Book of Comics: A Slight History
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3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Re-Constructing the Man of Steel: Superman 1938–1941, Jewish American History, and the Invention of the Jewish–Comics Connection
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3.60 avg rating — 5 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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Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar (Studies in Popular Culture
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3.80 avg rating — 59 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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The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore
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3.98 avg rating — 244 ratings
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A History of Underground Comics
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3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings
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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
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3.80 avg rating — 1,612 ratings
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor
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4.40 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Comic Books and American Cultural History
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Panel Discussions: Design In Sequential Art Storytelling
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4.14 avg rating — 50 ratings
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With Great Power: The Marvelous Stan Lee
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4.24 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Sparring With Gil Kane: Debating The History and Aesthetics of Comics
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4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
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James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons
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4.36 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Will Eisner's Shop Talk
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4.01 avg rating — 99 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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Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics from Manga to Graphic Novels
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4.10 avg rating — 1,737 ratings
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The Untold History of Black Comic Books
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History
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3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 617 ratings
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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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Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics, 1940s-1970s: An Illustrated History
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, Vol. 1
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 200 ratings
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Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
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3.68 avg rating — 184 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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Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer: Rodolphe Topffer (Great Comics Artists Series)
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (Postmillennial Pop, 1)
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3.99 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, Vol. 2
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4.05 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics
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4.23 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
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3.79 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
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Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Comics Feature History of Comic Books
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Kirby: King of Comics
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4.12 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
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Artists on Comics Art
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3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Gustave Doré: Twelve Comic Strips
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 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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Reading Comics
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Making Comics (Lynda Barry's Creativity Series)
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4.47 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
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Grant Morrison: The Early Years
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4.15 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books
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3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Early Comic Strip: Narrative Strips and Picture Stories in the European Broadsheet from c.1450 to 1825 (History of the Comic Strip, Volume 1)
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4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Comics As Art: We Told You So
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4.04 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Mastering Comics: Drawing Words & Writing Pictures Continued
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Drawing Words and Writing Pictures
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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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Who Was Stan Lee?
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4.31 avg rating — 1,398 ratings
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Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Complete History of American Comic Books: Afterword by Steve Geppi
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3.50 avg rating — 14 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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The Comics Journal Library, Vol. 6: The Writers
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3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck: First American Comics
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3.71 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel
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3.49 avg rating — 127 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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Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form
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3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics
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3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
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A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee
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3.69 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Writing for Comics With Peter David
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4.06 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The 101 Best Graphic Novels
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3.30 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present
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3.82 avg rating — 169 ratings
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America's Great Comic-Strip Artists: From the Yellow Kid To Peanuts
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3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society
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3.51 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Making Faces: Drawing Expressions For Comics And Cartoons
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4.02 avg rating — 170 ratings
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But I Digress (But I Digress, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 84 ratings
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100 Years of Comic Strips
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4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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101 Outstanding Graphic Novels
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3.05 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life
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4.15 avg rating — 140 ratings
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A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign (Studies in Popular Culture Series)
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Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books
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4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
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3.75 avg rating — 5,948 ratings
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More Digressions: A New Collection of "But I Digress" Columns (But I Digress, #2)
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3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Will Eisner: A Spirited Life
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3.76 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Horror Comics: The Illustrated History (Taylor History of Comics #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Graphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Creators Of Humor In Comic Books
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Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History
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3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images.
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3.96 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Come In Alone
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The Comics Journal Library: Zap — The Interviews #9: Zap - The Interviews
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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