75 Years of DC Comics. the Art of Modern Mythmaking

by Paul Levitz

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, TASCHEN has produced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836554569
• ISBN13: 9783836554565
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 9.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 10.1" x 13.2"