The Library of Comics:

The Library of Comics:

Few books were published in the 1940s, 1950s and into the 1960s with an accurate portrayal of the history of comics. One had to rely on old newspaper articles which are often incomplete or a handful of books that were later to be proved very inaccurate. But that has changed now. There are many books out discussing various aspects of the comic industry from its very beginning to current times. Over the last half-century I have collected many of those volumes which also includes runs of all comic books and comic strips which were never before available.

I will often beginn with the full bookcase or closet, but then give closeups. And because of size and shape some books are not quite where you'd want them!

Lets Start off with Marvels

Because they fit on the bottom of the Marvel Bookcases I have oversized books, including many Artist's editions.

Published by the Folio Society, I contributed to the above books, along with John and Nick Caputo.

In putting the Carts before DC, here are three carts.  The first is Kirby and Ditko:

 Biographies and Stan Lee and Marvel

Cart of the History of Comics

Let's go to mostly DCs

EC and the Horror comics of the 1950s

Archie and EC?

I know it sounds silly, but space is really my library's final frontier.  So I ahcve to fit things where they fit and Archie fits in here!

PS Publishing haas been publishing comics from the 1940s and 1950s.

Creepy and Crew

Comic Strips

It's Prince Valiant on the lower left!

Various comics

Finally, Bond, James Bond