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The illustrated history--crime comics

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  • "Crime comics"
  • "Crime comics--the illustrated history"

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  • "It began in the early 1930s, when a square-jawed detective named Dick Tracy caused quite a stir in the comics. Soon comic books would be filled with forthright heroes, nasty hoodlums, G-men, and the most infamous criminals. Crime comics were bold, wild, and bloody - and the most popular comic book genre of the mid-forties and fifties. Mike Benton, author of Taylor's award-winning History of Comics series, explores the colorful history of this genre: its birth in Dick Tracy and the crime pulps ... the Depression-era battles between public enemies like Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI ... the years of TV detectives from Peter Gunn to the Mod Squad and more ... and today's new breed of detectives. Along the way, you'll meet the graphic incarnations of such literary favorites as Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, and Perry Mason - but do you remember Sally the Sleuth from Spicy Detective; Jane Arden, Crime Reporter; Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective; or Little Al of the FBI?"

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Comic books, strips, etc"

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  • "The illustrated history--crime comics"
  • "Crime comics : the illustrated history"
  • "Crime comics: the illustrated history"

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