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• Author(s): Grant Geissman • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: AnthologiesIn 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines, who was responsible for midwifing the birth of...

• Author(s): Grant Geissman • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Science Fiction - GeneralWhen Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics from his father, the legendary publisher M. C. Gaines, at just 25 years old, no one could predict...

• Author(s): Paul Duncan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: SuperheroesIn January 1976, as George Lucas prepared to shoot his new film, then titled The Star Wars, he asked Marvel Comics to publish a comic book for the film...

• Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes)When Marvel publisher Martin Goodman asked Stan Lee to deliver another new team book for his line of comics, he had no idea he'd be getting so...

• Author(s): Douglas Wolk | John Buscema | Stan Lee • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes)Introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the fertile pages of The Fantastic Four, the Silve...

• Author(s): Kurt Busiek • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes)By early 1963 the foundations of the Marvel Universe had been laid. Following the introduction of the Fantastic Four i...

• Author(s): Dian Hanson • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Action & AdventureIn 1928 commercial artist Hal Foster took a job to turn Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes into a 60-installment black and white...