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From Batgirl to Wonder Woman, all of the greatest female characters of the DC Comics universe are paid homage in alphabetical order in this epic tome. DC Comics Super Heroines: 100 Greatest Moments. is broken down, moment by moment, to give readers a better understanding to pivotal points in the development of their favorite heroines as well as the wide scope of the DC Comics extended universe.  Now in a larger size to give you an even closer look at your favorite heroines. The second installm...

The Beano is Britain's longest-running and best-loved comic. Since 1938 it has brought thrills and laughter to generation after generation of children, seeing the young and young-at-heart through World War 2, the social changes of the 1950s and 60s and on into a new millennium. How has the comic evolved since its early days? How many of the classic characters and their stories do you remember? What are the important changes that have happened through the years, why have they happened and why has...

THE MLJ COMPANION documents the complete history of Archie Comics’ super-hero characters known as the “Mighty Crusaders”—The Shield, Black Hood, Steel Sterling, Hangman, Mr. Justice, The Fly, and many others. It features in-depth examinations of each era of the characters’ extensive history: The Golden Age (beginning with the Shield, the first patriotic super-hero, who pre-dated Captain America by a full year), the Silver Age (spotlighting those offbeat, campy Mighty Comics issues, and The Fly a...

In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more. In a single year alone, films featuring Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers have appeared on the big screen. Popular media no longer exists in isolation, but converges into complex multidimensional entities. As a result, traditional ideas about the relationship between varying media have come under...

Marie Severin was born into a family of artists, and she made friendships in comics that have lasted a lifetime. She colored the horror, science fiction, and war comics of the legendary EC line, and spent thirty years working for Marvel Comics, doing everything from production and coloring to penciling, inking, and art direction, with work on characters including the Incredible Hulk, Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, and Kull the Conqueror, which she drew with her brother John. She is renowned for he...

One of a kind custom cutaway book of vehicles from all the Batman movies! Packaged with die-cast model of the Batmobile from Tim Burton's Batman! A behind the scenes look at the design and construction of the iconic vehicles featured in the Batman motion pictures. Featuring Batmobiles from the Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan blockbusters! This 72-page book comes packaged with a 1/43 scale die-cast metal replica of the Anton Furst designed Batmobile featured in Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman. N...

Find out everything you need to know about all your favourite superheroes from DC comic books. The most comprehensive chronological history of DC Comics ever published, DC Comics Year by Year A Visual Chronicle covers all the milestone events in the history of DC Comics.Explore the milestone events of DC Comics month by month, from the company's inception in 1934 as National Allied Publications to the present day. The first appearances of key characters, such as Batman, Aquaman and Superman are...

The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities--disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies-- Jose Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben...

Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened "adventure of reading" in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds...

Celebrate the wonder of Disney in its 100th year in this platinum collection of vintage stickers. Capture and keep the magic with Disney characters from across ten decades of history, including icons Mickey and Minnie, Disney Princesses, Pixar characters such as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, and Disney Animation stars such as Winnie the Pooh.Page after page of this book is packed with beautiful vintage artwork of characters that entertain, delight, and bring back precious memories. Get creative! Ado...

In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers-a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter.Superman's story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters, are all told in The Golden Age of DC Comics...

Learn how to make manga from one of the greatest manga editors of all time! Kazuhiko Torishima is the sixth editor-in-chief of Japan’s biggest manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump! He is one of Japan’s leading editors, having discovered and nurtured great manga artists such as Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball, Masakazu Katsura of Video Girl Ai, and Koji Inada of Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, and further transforming the manga business by expanding the crossover of manga, anime, and video games...

Ninjas, mechas, samurais, geishas…this monster book of Manga step by step will guide you through every phase, teaching you to draw the amazing herpes of your favorite manga. The book contains more than 40 guided exercises, featuring many of the remarkable tips and tricks used by the best professional manga artists: from the original sketches to the final shadowing and coloring.

“No one, before now, has written a history of the comic strip as a technological artifact—not, at least, in such depth, and on such a sound foundation of research.” – Michael Chabon, author, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay If you love comics, you’ll love this visual history of comic strips featuring all of the methods, techniques, and wizardry that made the funny pages such an important staple of American life. Featuring interviews with dozens of the century's most famous cartoonists...