Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books - CRAWFORD, Hubert H.
KORTE INHOUD
Despite the title, "Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books" is not a look at the comic books, characters, writers and artists all arranged in alphabetical order. Instead, Hubert H. Crawford is organized around the companies that published comic books in the United States during the 20th century. Crawford's volume is something of an apologia for an art form that was essentially discarded as "trash" by the 1970s, mainly as a result of the controversy that created the Comics Code Authority. Pointing out that while there have been some elements of certain comic books that have justified such criticism, Crawford contends that the positive aspects of this highly creative art form have been completely overlooked. Consequently the encyclopedia is more of a series of brief histories of the major and minor comic book publishes from 1935, when Superman was created, through the mid-1950s, when the comic book industry toppled, personified by what happened to E.C. comics. Crawford examines the comic book as a magazine of p...
