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The Comic-Book Book by Thompson, Don & Dick Lupoff (eds)

by Thompson, Don & Dick Lupoff (eds)

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The Comic-Book Book

by Thompson, Don & Dick Lupoff (eds)

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Rainbow Books Carlstadt, NJ 1977 Originally Published in 1973 . Very Good Med 8vo, 360pp, b/w & 16pp colour Illusts Very Good Soft Cover This book explores the 'Golden Age' of comic book design. The blurb tells us that a postgraduate psychologist invented Wonder Woman; that a pauper wrote the original Tarzan story on someone else's stationery; that Mad magazine began life as a comic book etc etc.
  • Seller Independent bookstores AU (AU)
  • Book Condition Used
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Rainbow Books Carlstadt, NJ 1977 Originally Published in 1973
  • Keywords Illustration - History & Theory

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THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK
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THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK

by Thompson, Don and Lupoff, Dick

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Used - Very Good
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First Ed Thus
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Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780873416566 / 0873416562
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Krause, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Ed Thus. First trade paperback ed. thus. Very good condition, moderate over all wear..
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The Comic-Book Book

by Thompson, Don & Dick Lupoff (eds.)

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Condition
Used - Near fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
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First edition, first printing
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Hardcover
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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Arlington House, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover..
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The Comic-Book Book.

The Comic-Book Book.

by Thompson, Don & Dick Lupoff

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  • Hardcover
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Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
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First edition.
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Hardcover
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Fair Oaks, California, United States
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New Rochelle.: Arlington House., 1973.. First edition. . Hardcover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.
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THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK

THE COMIC-BOOK BOOK

by Thompson, Don and Dick Lupoff (editors)

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Used - Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Carlstadt, NJ: Rainbow Books, 1977. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 360 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w illustrations. History and appreciations of the great comic features of the past. Includes: The strange, psychosexual origins of Wonder Woman; the birth of MAD; pre-Disney Mickey and Minnie Mouse; Comics Code Authority softens its stance against vampires and werewolves; the war-time chant of Superman; Carl Barks' life at Disney Studios; the schizophrenia of the EC symbol, and more. Contributors include Bill Blackbeard, Don Glut, Maggie Thompson, Mike Barrier, Ron Goulart, Dick Lupoff, Don Thompson, Juanita Coulson, et al. SIGNED by Dick Lupoff.
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The Comic Book Book

by THOMPSON, Don, and Dick LUPOFF, (editors)

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Used
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Hardcover
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, Australia
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New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House, 1973. Octavo, 360 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, a very good copy
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The comic-book book

The comic-book book

by Thompson, Don & Lupoff, Dick (eds)

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780870001932 / 0870001930
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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U.S.A: Arlington House. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0870001930 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is creased at the front foldover and a little chipped at the spine ends. Appears little used. 360 pages, illustrations in the text .
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