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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of figures
General editor’s preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is a comic?
PART I BRITAIN
1 The first adult comics
2 Kids’ stuff
3 Underground comix
4 2000AD: ‘The comic of tomorrow!’
5 Fandom and direct sales
6 ‘Comics grow up!’: dawn of the graphic novel
7 From boom to bust
8 Viz: ‘More fun than a jammy bun!’
9 The future
PART II THE UNITED STATES
10 Strips and proto-comics
11 Comic books for everyone
12 1954 – seduction of the experienced?
13 The years of collapse: survivors and adaptors
14 The modern era
PART III ASPECTS
15 Worldcomics
16 Adult comics and other media
17 Women and adult comics
18 The graphic novel in context
Conclusion
Appendices
1 Code of the Comics Magazine Association of America, Inc.
2 Ready reference dates for key British and American comics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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