"Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says, "Shazam!," he becomes Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest Mortal, one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s. This book tells the story of that hero and the writers and artists who created his magical adventures.The saga o ..."
"Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says, "Shazam!," he becomes Captain Marvel, the World's Mightiest Mortal, one of the most popular comic book characters of the 1940s. This book tells the story of that hero and the writers and artists who created his magical adventures.The saga o ..."
"Most of the information here about Angel Love and Amethyst comes from
interviews with Barbara Slate (on January 11, 2019) and Dan Mishkin (on
January 21, 2019), respectively. I'm very grateful to them for their time and
assistance, without ..."
"In 1953, H. L. Gold responded to Binder's new fiction with advice on how to
transition back to prose after a decade primarily devoted to comics. “It's good
hearing from you again,” Gold wrote, “but it's also disturbing to see what writing
comics has done to your style, characterization, and dialogue.” Gold concedes
that the story's concept “is all right” (Gold does not name the Binder story in
question in the letter). The writing a ..."
"First, the illustrator or cartoonist has an obligation to the writer. The artist's
responsibility is to bring the writer's concepts to life, to animate the words of a
script with a series of images. Beck once referred to this as a process of
translation: “The ..."
"Doug Moench left Marvel in a dispute with editor in chief Jim Shooter over the
future of Master of Kung Fu. For a fuller account of this dispute, read Howe 256–
60. 4. As with other aspects of his career, Moench is remarkably consistent when
..."
The Other 1980S Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade - 9780807174777 by Brannon Costello, BrianCremins Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2021 by Louisiana State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7477-7, ISBN: 0-8071-7477-7
"The twenty essays in The Other 1980s illuminate many works hailed as innovative in their day that have nonetheless fallen from critical view, partly because they challenge the contours of conventional comics studies scholarship: open-ended ..."
"The twenty essays in The Other 1980s illuminate many works hailed as innovative in their day that have nonetheless fallen from critical view, partly because they challenge the contours of conventional comics studies scholarship: open-ended ..."
Desegregating Comics Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics (Paperback) by Qiana Whitted Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2023 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-978825-01-7, ISBN: 1-978825-01-3