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The Art of Modern Mythmaking
Taschen America Llc
November 2010
On Sale: November 18, 2010
720 pages
ISBN: 383651981X
EAN: 9783836519816
Hardcover
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75 Years of Pow! Bam! Smash! Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara: 75 years of DC
Comics In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with
all-new, original material—at a time when comic books were
mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips.
What was initially considered to be disposable media for
children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of
our time—the 20th century’s answer to Atlas or Zorro. More
than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisher’s
75th anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most
comprehensive book on DC Comics, in an XL edition even
Superman might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000
images—covers and interiors, original illustrations,
photographs, film stills, and collectibles—are reproduced
using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the
characters, and their creators to vibrant life as they’ve
never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes
is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays
trace the company’s history, from its pulp origins through
to the future of digital publishing. Year-by-year timelines that fold out to nearly four feet and
biographies of the legends who built DC make this an
invaluable reference for any comic book fan.
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