Tops : the complete collection of Charles Biro's visionary 1949 comic book series
(2022)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Fantagraphics, 2022
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781683964643 MWT14950374, 1683964640 14950374
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Before EC, before His Name is…Savage!, before underground comix, this volume collects a pioneering attempt - from the creators of the first true crime comic - to publish stories aimed at adults in the comic book format. From their inception in 1935, comic books - starring Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel - had been primarily written for and aimed at adolescents. There were always the occasional outlier artists who pushed back against the commercial constraints of comic books and envisioned the next evolutionary artistic leap in the artform: Charles Biro was one of those artists
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