American Update: A spiffy new selection of Mags & Books about Vintage US Comics
*Magazines/Books About Vintage US Comics: A diverse and eclectic selection added to this popular category, including Amazing Heroes, BEM from 1981 (with a Bolland Lady Blackhawk cover – what more do you need to know?), Fantagraphic’s Ditko Collection Vol. II, Craig Yoe’s hardcover collection and retrospective on Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein, Whiz Kids #1, (the UK’s first Fawcett fanzine from 1975), two texts on R. Crumb (Life & Times Of… and Your Vigor For Life Appals Me.), an early DC mass-market release, Secret Origins of the DC Super-Heroes, the Golden Age of Comics *and* the not-to-be-confused-with Comics: The Golden Age, and from the mid-1970’s, two copies of Captain George Presents…! Perhaps the most interesting item in this selection, though, is the 1977 Comic Art Convention Booklet – the Tenth Anniversary Special, even – a handsome tome featuring dozens of sketches and finished illos. by many of the best in the business at the time: Cardy, Kirby, Adams, Cockrum, Morrow and scores more!