Comic History

Product list
    • The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture
    • By: Dan Gearino
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The early 1970s saw the birth of the modern comic book shop. Its rise was due in large part to a dynamic entrepreneur, Phil Seuling....

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    • A Cultural History of American Comic Books
    • By: Jean-Paul Gabilliet
    • Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Originally published in France and long sought in English translation....

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    • The Untold Story
    • By: Sean Howe
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history: Marvel Comics....

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    • Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy, and the History of Comic Book Heroines
    • By: Mike Madrid
    • Narrated by: Colby Elliott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Comic book superheroines bend steel, travel across time and space, and wield the awesome forces of nature....

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    • Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC
    • By: Reed Tucker
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • This is the story of the greatest corporate rivalry never told. Other books have revealed elements of the Marvel-DC battle, but this will be the first one to put it all together....

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    • Not Just Create Them
    • By: Josh Blaylock
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-2015
    • Language: English
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    • Josh Blaylock's now classic how-to prose book about the business of comic book publishing, after selling out of its updated 2012 edition, is now being rereleased....

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    • A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies
    • By: Alex Grand
    • Narrated by: Alex Grand
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 17-06-2024
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them.

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    • A History
    • By: Jeremy Dauber
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Dauber
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, author Jeremy Dauber whizzes listeners through comics’ progress in the 20th century and beyond....

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    • How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
    • By: Karl Stock
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Karl Stock reveals the true story of the wild times, passion, and determination that helped, hindered, and saw the reinvention of comics....

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    • The Evolution of the American Comic Book
    • By: Paul Lopes
    • Narrated by: Robert A K Gonyo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2016
    • Language: English
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    • How is it that comic books - the once-reviled form of lowbrow popular culture - are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters....

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    • Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
    • By: Peyton Brunet, Blair Davis, Trina Robbins - foreword
    • Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers....

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    • The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
    • By: Bradford W. Wright
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry....

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    • The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar
    • By: Joseph Witek
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Russo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2017
    • Language: English
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    • In this study Joseph Witek examines the rise of the comic book to a position of importance in modern culture and assesses its ideological and historical implications....

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    • Adaptation from Panel to Frame
    • By: Scott Henderson, Barry Keith Grant
    • Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Examining current debates and the questions raised by comics adaptations, including those around authorship, style, and textual fidelity, the contributors consider the topic from an array of approaches that take into account representations of sexuality, gender, and race....

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    • From the Pages to the Big Screen
    • By: Benny Potter, Dan Rumbles, Jason Keen
    • Narrated by: Cole Baechler
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • This definitive guide to comic book films divulges behind-the-scenes secrets and the hidden history behind these must-see movies including how, after very rocky beginnings, they shot to the top with DC and Marvel as two of the most important franchises in the industry....

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    • The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale
    • By: Tim Hanley
    • Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For more than 75 years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains, and damsels in distress....

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    • A Salute to the Comic Book Heroes and Villains Who Fought for Their Country
    • By: Jason Inman
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran and former host of All Access, DC Comics' web show, Jason Inman, discusses the influence war has had on some of the most memorable superheroes in comics....

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