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TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3648 - This book was one that I picked up recently. What's the book about? Here's the publisher's promo on it: "Art In Time is a companion to Dan Nadel’s previous book, Art Out of Time. In this engaging and smart volume, Nadel focuses on the lesser-known comic works by celebrated icons of the industry, like H.G. Peter (the artist behind Wonder Woman), John Stanley (the writer and artist for Little Lulu), Harry Lucey (one of the artists behind Archie), Jesse Marsh (the artist for Tarzan), and Bill Everett (best know for his characters Sub Mariner and Dr. Strange)." So what did I think about this book...? The front cover made me pick it up to browse further. As you can see from the above top right photo, it is intriguing. The back cover stated: "Featuring the Unheralded Work of... Pat Boyette, Bill Everett, Matt Fox, Sam J. Glanzman, Harry Lucey, Pete Morisi, John Stanley, John Thompson and others. Which made me check out the interior pages of the book. The interior front pages were covers from the stories that were reprinted within the book. Not bad. Checking the back inside cover pages, I noticed that there were more comic book covers. The Contents Page listed an Introduction: Their Worlds, Demand and Supply, and the list of the artists included in the book. Along with a Sources section and an Acknowledgements section. After reading the Introduction, I found out why Dan Nadel of PictureBox, Inc. wrote this book. Interesting background as to why. The 'Demand and Supply' page continued the background, and then came the first of several chapters, this one on Harry Lucey (1913-79/80). There was a page on Harry and then two stories from Harry. This was similar to the rest of the chapters. I found that there were several stories I had never read before, and liked the fact that each comic book page was copied from a copy of the originally printed comic book. Almost like reading the comic book! Some of the chapters I found more interesting than others, like the chapters on Matt Fox, and Pat Boyette, but all in all, this was a pretty good / organized book. I would give this a Very Fine Plus (VF+) 8.5 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.. Here is more about the author and info you would need to order the book: Dan Nadel is the author of Abrams' Art Out of Time and the director of the award winning visual culture studio and publishing house PictureBox, which produces The Ganzfeld, an annual book of pictures and prose. Art in Time Here is where you can purchase it direct from the publisher. ~ Michael D Hamersky!
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