{"product_id":"american-comic-book-chronicles-19451949-9781605490991","title":"American Comic Book Chronicles 19451949","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of FULL-COLOR HARDCOVERS, where TwoMorrows'' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! At long last, this 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father's death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover, further documenting the ACBC series'' cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history! By Richard J. Arndt and Kurt F. Mitchell, with Keith Dallas.","brand":"TwoMorrows Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50122444243287,"sku":"9781605490991","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781605490991.jpg?v=1741269270","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-comic-book-chronicles-19451949-9781605490991","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}