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Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993. Cloth, 166 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. The Taylor History of Comics; no. 5. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket with light shelfwear (corner crease/front flap). OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "It began in the early 1930s, when a square-jawed detective named Dick Tracy caused quite a stir in the comics. Soon comic books would be filled with forthright heroes, nasty hoodlums, G-men, and the most infamous criminals. Crime comics were bold, wild, and bloody - and the most popular comic book genre of the mid-forties and fifties. Mike Benton, author of Taylor's award-winning History of Comics series, explores the colorful history of this genre: its birth in Dick Tracy and the crime pulps . . . the Depression-era battles between public enemies like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI . . . the years of TV detectives from Peter Gunn to the Mod Squad and…
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The Illustrated History--Crime Comics: The Illustrated History Hardcover - 1993
by Mike Benton
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- Title The Illustrated History--Crime Comics: The Illustrated History
- Author Mike Benton
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 170
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Taylor Publishing Company (TX), Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
- Date 1993
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780878338146 / 0878338144
- Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
- Dimensions 11.38 x 8.81 x 0.77 in (28.91 x 22.38 x 1.96 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92037159
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.509
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