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iowasjoe's review against another edition
5.0
Just finished. Awesome. Covers all aspects of comics. I have the 50s and 60s to read next. Hopefully there will be books on the 40s and 90s. Great stuff.
sfian's review against another edition
4.0
I've said it before and Ill say it again - I love these books. They are detailed histories of the US Comic market in general, obviously focusing on the big publishers and big events but also detailing smaller publishers and titles.
Sure, they can't cover everything but, even for a seasoned collector like me there is stuff I didn't know until I read each volume. And, for the most part, it's really interesting stuff. Obviously, earlier volumes have contained more "new" facts but even this one, which focuses on the decade during which I first started reading and collecting those little pieces of art from across the pond is fascinating. I knew Marvel nearly went bankrupt fairly recently, but I didn't know it nearly happened in the 70s, nor what saved them. I didn't reaslise all the behind-the-scenes machinations going on at the big-two companies (or how "nasty" some otherwise amiable people seemed to be), nor how big an industry the underground comics were.
I have always been fascinated by the history of comics and these books have both whetted my appetite for more facts on that history and brought back to life an interest in collecting the older stuff, not just buying the new.
Again, with this volume, the only downsides are that it gets a bit "listy" in places, some sections are almost repeated (as if the books have been put together from a series of articles and not proof-read as they were) and sometimes comes across as a bit rushed in places. Other than that, I can#t complain
Sure, they can't cover everything but, even for a seasoned collector like me there is stuff I didn't know until I read each volume. And, for the most part, it's really interesting stuff. Obviously, earlier volumes have contained more "new" facts but even this one, which focuses on the decade during which I first started reading and collecting those little pieces of art from across the pond is fascinating. I knew Marvel nearly went bankrupt fairly recently, but I didn't know it nearly happened in the 70s, nor what saved them. I didn't reaslise all the behind-the-scenes machinations going on at the big-two companies (or how "nasty" some otherwise amiable people seemed to be), nor how big an industry the underground comics were.
I have always been fascinated by the history of comics and these books have both whetted my appetite for more facts on that history and brought back to life an interest in collecting the older stuff, not just buying the new.
Again, with this volume, the only downsides are that it gets a bit "listy" in places, some sections are almost repeated (as if the books have been put together from a series of articles and not proof-read as they were) and sometimes comes across as a bit rushed in places. Other than that, I can#t complain
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