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Books by Brian Cremins






Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia(Reprint)
by Brian Cremins
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2019 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2019-8, ISBN: 1-4968-2019-3

"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 ..."






Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia(1st Edition)
by Brian Cremins
Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 2017 by University Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0876-9, ISBN: 1-4968-0876-2

"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 ..."






The Other 1980s
Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade
by Brannon Costello, Brian Cremins
364 Pages, Published 2021 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7551-4, ISBN: 0-8071-7551-X

"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 ..."






Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia
by Brian Cremins
256 Pages, Published 2017 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0879-0, ISBN: 1-4968-0879-7

"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 ..."






Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia
by Brian Cremins
256 Pages, Published 2017 by Univ. Press Of Mississippi
ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-0877-6, ISBN: 1-4968-0877-0

"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 ..."






The Other 1980s
Reframing Comics’ Crucial Decade
by Brannon Costello, Brian Cremins
364 Pages, Published 2021 by Lsu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7550-7, ISBN: 0-8071-7550-1

"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, Brian Cremins
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 Other 1980s
Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade (Hardback)
by Brannon Costello, Brian Cremins, Maaheen Ahmed, José Alaniz, Jonathan Alexandratos, Jeremy Carnes, Blair Davis, And Hoberek
Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2021 by Louisiana State University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7133-2, ISBN: 0-8071-7133-6

"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

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Brannon Costello

Blair Davis

José Alaniz

Maaheen Ahmed

Jeremy Carnes

Jonathan Alexandratos

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Robert Hutton

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