75 Years of DC Comics. The Art of Modern Mythmaking
| ISBN | 9783836519816 |
| Yayınevi | Taschen |
| Yazarlar | Paul Levitz (author) |
| Kitap Tanıtımı | fans library In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original materialat a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our timethe 20th centurys answer to Atlas or Zorro. More than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publishers 75th anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics, in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000 imagescovers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectiblesare reproduced using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as theyve never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the companys history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing. |
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