{"id":1471,"date":"2007-11-21T18:58:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2007-11-21T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:59:08","slug":"the-comic-book-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/11\/21\/the-comic-book-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Comic Book in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>An Illustrated History<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/the-comic-book-in-america-an-illustrated-history.jpg\" alt=\"The Comic Book in America\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Mike Benton<\/strong> (Taylor Publications)<br \/>\nISBN13: 978-0-87833-659-3<\/p>\n<p>This lavish and informative coffee-table book is also a hugely useful primer into the history and secrets of that purely American graphic invention: The Comic Book.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with a brief introduction into the birth and nature of comics, covering the years 1896-1932 , the text goes on to summarise the growth and consolidation of the industry with a year by year pr\u00c3\u00a9cis of trends, sales, personalities and significant events starting with the birth of the physical artefact in 1933 all the way through to 1989.<\/p>\n<p>A second section details each and every individual publisher, their output, impact and, most usually, demise, and the text concludes with a final section which features a lively analysis of Genres in comic-books ranging from Crime to Western, by way of such milestones as Educational, Horror, Satire and even Underground Comix.<\/p>\n<p>Sumptuously illustrated with hundreds of beautiful comic covers, many of them incredibly rare, all of them wonderfully attractive and compelling, this is a treat for any fan, and if there is the odd factual inaccuracy, it is more than counterbalanced by the sheer enthusiasm and joyous exuberance of the total package. This is an utter delight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1989 Mike Benton. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Illustrated History By Mike Benton (Taylor Publications) ISBN13: 978-0-87833-659-3 This lavish and informative coffee-table book is also a hugely useful primer into the history and secrets of that purely American graphic invention: The Comic Book. Beginning with a brief introduction into the birth and nature of comics, covering the years 1896-1932 , the text &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/11\/21\/the-comic-book-in-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Comic Book in America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-nJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}