Building a Comic Book - Book Library 0

[Ares]

Ok so every one has a their own collection or as I like to call it Library.

If someone was to build a Library or collection of Books about Comics but not Comics them selves what would you include.

Obviously Seduction of the Innocent is in there but what other books would you include?

 

[KCOComics]

The Gerber photo journal. 

Would you consider the Overstreet price guide? Not really a book, but instrumental to the collectible comic market.  

Sterenko's history of the comics. 

Those are a few that jump to mind....

 

For books about comics

The Ten Cent Plague is excellent. 

"Marvel, The untold story" is good 

[Dave2739]

I highly recommend TwoMorrows' American Comic Book Chronicles series.

[B2D327]

On 12/21/2021 at 9:38 PM, Dave2739 said:

I highly recommend TwoMorrows' American Comic Book Chronicles series.

I 2nd that and also their “Modern Masters” collection

[Brock]

Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics

[snitzer]

Parade of Pleasure (PoP) 

[Readcomix]

All in Color for a Dime

Will Eisner’s Comics and Sequential Art

[Turnando]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Not a history of comics but a novel set in comic history, written by a lover of comics and it won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction.  You can't really beat that. Must have.

[comicginger1789]

Black Light…the visual guide to all things LB Cole. And while I’m at it I’d plaster the walls with images of his covers

[Grottu]

These two are very good. First one’s a cultural critique of comic book history, the other a nice nonfiction narrative of the key players involved over the years

[DanCooper]

I always found this book to be a terrific reference and resource.

It runs in an encyclopedia format (topics A-Z with a back index) and covers creators, characters, collections, conventions, etc. - the gamut.

Highly recommended!

[143ksk]

Bottom shelf has a few. SotI is hanging with the REH books on the top.

[mrc]

[GACollectibles]

On 12/21/2021 at 9:19 PM, KCOComics said:

The Ten Cent Plague is excellent.

A must have

[Zonker]

On 12/22/2021 at 8:23 AM, mrc said:

Highly recommended!  This is the Rolling Stone Record Guide of comic books!  

[Brock]

On 12/22/2021 at 8:23 AM, mrc said:

Wow… I saw a copy on @143ksk’s shelf, but I did not know there was a 2nd edition. Guess I’m doing some shopping tomorrow…

[Cat]

Tom DeFalco's 'Creator's On' Series. All 3 of them:Spider-Man, The X-Men, and The Fantastic Four. 

Paul Levitz's The Golden Age coffee table book. The massive one with the silver age and whatever other age he did (I can't recall right now if he just went on order or not). 

 

[FoggyNelson]

On 12/22/2021 at 7:56 AM, 143ksk said:

Bottom shelf has a few. SotI is hanging with the REH books on the top.

Like it👍‼️😷