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The Dreamer
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American Comics: A History
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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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Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code (Studies in Popular Culture
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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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The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1
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4.42 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Comics: A Slight History
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3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A History of Underground Comics
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3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Love on the Racks: A History of American Romance Comics
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4.16 avg rating — 19 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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From Girls to Grrrlz : A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines
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Comics Feature History of Comic Books
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Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books
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A Complete History of American Comic Books: Afterword by Steve Geppi
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form
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Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present
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3.83 avg rating — 170 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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Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History
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3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History
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Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
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History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels
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The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity
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Comic Books 101: The History, Methods and Madness
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3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Tintin and the World of Hergé: An Illustrated History
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4.33 avg rating — 446 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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Comic Books and American Cultural History
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3.81 avg rating — 27 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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The Untold History of Black Comic Books
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Archie's Rivals in Teen Comics, 1940s-1970s: An Illustrated History
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Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer: Rodolphe Topffer (Great Comics Artists Series)
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Cham: The Best Comic Strips and Graphic Novelettes, 1839–1862
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Gustave Doré: Twelve Comic Strips
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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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4.29 avg rating — 17 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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The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck: First American Comics
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3.70 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics
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3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising
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3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings
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America's Great Comic-Strip Artists: From the Yellow Kid To Peanuts
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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100 Years of Comic Strips
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Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Creators Of Humor In Comic Books
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The Comics Journal Library: Zap — The Interviews #9: Zap - The Interviews
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The New Comics: Interviews from the Pages of the Comics Journal
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Comics Interview: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1
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Alter Ego Collection Volume 1
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Comic-Book Book
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3.94 avg rating — 31 ratings
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All in Color for a Dime
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3.96 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging (Postmillennial Pop, 25)
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Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists: 1
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The WWII Era Comic Art of E. Simms Campbell: Cuties in Arms & More Cuties in Arms
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The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art
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Comics Art
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The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Silver Age: The Second Generation of Comic Artists
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Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969
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4.08 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
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4.32 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Adventurous Decade: Comic Strips In The Thirties
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Comics Above Ground: How Sequential Art Affects Mainstream Media
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The Silver Age of Comic Book Art
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4.14 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Anything Can Happen in a Comic Strip: Centennial Reflections on an American Art Form
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The Inked-In Image: A Social and Historical Survey of Australian Comic Art
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In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman
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4.08 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
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Arf Museum: The Unholy Marriage of Art and Comics
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Founders of Comic Fandom: Profiles of 90 Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s
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4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Art in Time: Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940–1980
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3.82 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay
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Comics Ad Men (The Fantagraphics Underground Series)
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The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade
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Horror Comics: The Illustrated History (Taylor History of Comics #1)
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John Stanley in the 1950s: a Comics Bibliography: An Annotated Chronology, 1950-1960
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American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and the Battles of Lev Gleason
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Babes In Arms: Women in the Comics During World War Two
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Victorian comics
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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
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Comics and the U.S. South
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Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire--And Both Lost
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DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics
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Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
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Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
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Swedish Comics History
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics
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Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics
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Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
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Comic Book History of Comics: Birth of a Medium
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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
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Comics in Wisconsin
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The First Comics
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Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews
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The Colorful Story of Comics: Ready-to-Read Level 3
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Asian Comics
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Comics and the World Wars: A Cultural Record
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Adult Comics: An Introduction
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3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
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Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
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Heroes of the Comics: Portraits of the Pioneering Legends of Comic Books
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Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic
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Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
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Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series)
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The Language of Comics: Word and Image
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