Goulart, Ron

Information on the history and development of the American comic book with entries on characters and comics from the 1930s to the present.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Features 600 A to Z entries from 1892 to the latest Calvin and Hobbes strip.

Provides a history of the comic book business from the early 1930s through the World War II years, and features reproductions of more than four hundred cover illustrations from comic books that appeared between the mid-1930s and the late 1940s.

A fully-illustrated, alphabetically arranged reference guide to the greatest comics, graphic novels, characters, artists, and writers in American history.