Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On:   Comic Book Century   The History of American Comic Books!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3665 - This Book Is Supposed To Be......the History of the American Comic Book for a younger readership, say like the 7th - 9th grades.

It does cover a lot time periods in its' 112 pages, and since it does cater to the juvenile nonfiction category, it manages to at least briefly describe each period.

The cover is not the most appealing one for a mainstream reader in my opinion.  It features what appears to be a mad scientist and a dectective / crime scene.

However the interior pages do cover the beginnings of comic books, the superheroes taking off, the comics going to war, the Comics Code Authority stamp, and other major periods for comics. That was  the strong point to this book.

My only problem with the text, was that it had a few errors in the history it told. For some reason these errors keep getting repeated when the history of comics is told. Taking out those few errors, the book is well documented and sourced with several features at the back of the book for reference.

Other than that, the book had enough photos and pictures of the creations the text was about or the period it was referencing to. Stephen Krensky did a good job in the interior pages to interest the reader into learning more about the history of comic books from the 1930's to the 2000's.

This would be a pretty good book for a library to have in the juvenile nonfiction section, or for someone looking to get a young reader interested in the history of comics and possibly collecting them. The cover may not appeal to young girls however.

My comic book grade for this book is a Very Fine (VF) 8.0 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

You can find it for sale at this link:  Comic Book Century: The History of American Comic Books (People's History). 

~ Michael D Hamersky

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