Issue Description

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues into the 1980s, covering all the pivotal moments and behind-the-scenes details of comics during the Reagan era. You'll get a year-by-year account of the most significant publications, notable creators, and major trends including: the rise and fall of Jim Shooter at Marvel Comics; the ascendancy of Frank Miller as a superstar; DC Comics' reboot with Crisis on Infinite Earths and its British Renaissance; the emergence of Direct Market-exclusive publishers; and many other events that shaped comic book history!

It was the 1980s

It was a decade of notable successes and equally stunning failures for the comic book industry. It was the decade when Jim Shooter's Marvel Comics dominated the marketplace, with the Uncanny X-Men attaining unparalleled popularity. It was the decade when a Crisis relaunched DC Comics' fictional universe and its readers saw a Dark Knight Return and asked who watches the Watchmen. Most of all, the 1980s was the decade of the Direct Market when the proliferation of specialty comic book stores provoked the creation of new publishers like First, Malibu, Comico, Pacific, and Dark Horse and new creator-owned properties like Los Bros. Hernandez's Love & Rockets and Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was one of the most successful decades the comic book industry would ever have. It was the 1980s.

American Comic Book Chronicles documents every decade of comic book history, from the 1930s to today. Each volume presents a year-by-year account of the comic book industry's most significant publications, most notable creators, and most impactful trends.

American Comic Book Chronicles (2013)

Publisher

TwoMorrows Publishing

Volume Description

Hardcover series.

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