Comic Book Nation

The Transformation of Youth Culture in America

• Author(s): Bradford W. Wright,
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Pages: 336
• Language: en

Description:... As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. The author offers a history of the comic book industry within the context of twentieth-century American society.