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Foreword by Will Eisner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
1.The First Comics: Americans Embrace a New Art Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2.The 1950s:The Shadow of McCarthyism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.The 1960s:Troubled Heroes for Troubled Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.The Comic Book Store: Fans Find a Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.The Graphic Novel: Comics Take Themselves Seriously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.Trade Publishers and Comics: An Uneasy Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7. Opening the Gates:The Comics Field Grows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.The New Heroes:Would You Let this Man Marry Your Sister? . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
9.Maus: Surviving and Thriving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
10. The Sandman: A New Mythology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
11.Bone Wars:The Paradigm Shifts into High Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
12. Understanding Comics: The Dream of a Common Language . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
13.A Message in a Bottle: Notes from the Underground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
14.A New Millennium For Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
15.What’s Next for Graphic Novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Further Reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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