Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books

by Michael Barrier

Book Overview

Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan--it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283902
• ISBN13: 9780520283909
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"