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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Evil Twin Comics
Title: Comic Book Comics
Page Count: 44
Genre: Humor, Non-fiction
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 3.99 USD
Cover Date: October 2009
UPC: 649241867777
ISBN:
Country: United States
Recounts the rise of Marvel Comics in the 1960s and the special attention Stan Lee received from the media, at the cost of his working relationship with Kirby, while Ditko's objectivist outlook likewise drove him from the company.; Recounts the career of Robert Crumb and the rise of other underground cartoonists.; Recounts how Charles Biro helped launch a wave of crime comics, but was himself eventually arrested for murder.; Recounts stories of the French comic book marketplace from Tintin to Metal Hurlant and how while US comics fell out of favor in France, the French influence opened up a space for creator-owned comic books in the USA.; Recounts how the underground comic book movement began.