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[May] 2018 · [19.95 USD] · 396 pages
On sale 2018-05-18
ISBN 978-1683901297
UPC 978168390129790000
Synopsis
The timeline focuses on roughly two dozen events from 1952 (Ted White's publication of The Story of Superman) through 1970 (Overstreet's first comic book price guide).
Credits
- Script
- Bill Schelly
- Editor
- Bob McLain
Notes
Subtitled, "A Biographical Who's Who of Publishers, Dealers, Collectors, Writers, Artists, and Other Luminaries of the 1950s and 1960s".
The research is compiled from emails, interviews, and other correspondence from about 1990 to 2018. This book follows the author's previous work, The Golden Age of Fandom (Hamster Press, 1995).
Cover includes a glimpse of the comic book covers, including: • Crime Does Not Pay (Lev Gleason, 1942 series) #113 (August 1952) • Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #11 (March 1940) • Unknown Worlds (American Comics Group, 1960 series) #31 (April-May 1964) • Fantasy Illustrated (Bill Spicer, 1963 series) #4 (Summer 1965)