One of the definitive Captain America artists, it's fitting Steranko's version was chosen to advertise volume one of his seminal HISTORY OF THE COMICS. By the time this ad appeared, I had already found a copy at Kidd's Bookstore in downtown Cincinnati and devoured its information--all-new in those pre-'Net days--many times! With all the scholarship on comics history in the last couple of decades, I'm still not sure this book has been surpassed as a one-stop for the most important historical info on the subject. And then, of course, volume two continued that trend a couple years later!
Man, those Steranko History Of The Comics books were just INCREDIBLE. I remember staring deeply into the tiny 1" X 1 1/2" black-and-white pics of the pulp mags reproduced therein, wishing that they were bigger and in the glorious garish color that Steranko described. Shoot, I never even SAW a real pulp magazine until some 15 years later (!).
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I'm still waiting for Volume 3 (and was there maybe more planned to come?)...it probably won't be under 2 bucks, either! *sigh*
I have Vol. 1 and 2, but they are definitely called "History of Comics" -- not "History of the Comics".
ReplyDeleteYes, they were exceptional then, and still are today, Internet and all.
I too was waiting patiently for Volume 3 in this series when I realized...Steranko covered just
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ALL the major companies, characters, writers and artists...
a volume 3 would be second tier at
best...and Steranko doesn't do second tier! SO THERE!
Sam (Steranko fan) Kujava