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Originally published in 2003 and revised to accommodate the decade since, Stephen Weiner’s Faster Than a Speeding Bullet (IDW) is a slim 74-page consideration of “The Rise of the Graphic Novel.”...
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Book Review: American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960–1964 by John Wells
For many comic book fan kids of the Baby Boom generation, the early sixties were a magical time: with much of the industry nearly beaten into irrelevance by the juvenile delinquency panic of the...
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