Part One: Seventy Years’ Worth of Images
Chapter 1: From Comics to Comic Books (1842–1936)
Chapter 2: The Beginnings of an Industry: Comics Magazines (1936–1940)
Chapter 3: Comic Books at War (1940–1945)
Chapter 4: Ever More—The Apogee and the Fall (1945–1954)
Chapter 5: Decline and Rebirth (1955–1962)
Chapter 6: The Age of Innovation (1963–1969)
Chapter 7: Research and Development by Trial and Error (1969–1979)
Chapter 8: The Recovery of the 1980s (1980–1993)
Chapter 9: The End of a Century and the Beginning of a New Century (1993– )
Part Two: Producers and Consumers
Chapter 11: The Business of Comic Books
Part Three: A Difficult Consecration
Chapter 14: Calls for Censorship
Chapter 15: Internal Consecration
Chapter 16: External Consecration