Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies
By: Alex Grand
4.68
Format: 581 pages, Kindle Edition
This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the …
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1. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
By: Sean Howe
4.05
Format: 485 pages, Hardcover
An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural fo… read more
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2. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
By: None
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture… read more
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3. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
By: Scott McCloud
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more
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4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more
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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
5. Daredevil: Born Again
By: Frank Miller , David Mazzucchelli
4.89
Format: 78 pages,
"And I -- I have shown him... that a man without hope is a man without fear." The definitive Darede… read more
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7. Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.90
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
1888 W Africa. Newlyweds Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by mutineers. He builds a snug cabin … read more
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"Teach me to speak the language of men."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
"P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question."-Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
8. Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
By: Grant Morrison
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most acclaimed and profound writers in the world of comics comes a thrilling and pr… read more
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9. Brief Answers to the Big Questions
By: Stephen Hawking
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time and a figure of inspiration… read more
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"I use the word “God"-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
"This “Hawking temperature"-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
"So some might imagine that I am an expert on time, although of course these days an expert is not necessarily a good thing to be."-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
"I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race."-Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
10. Batman: Urban Legends, Vol. 1
By: Chip Zdarsky
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Two of Gotham City's edgiest heroes, Red Hood and Grifter, cross paths with Batman himself in this … read more
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11. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
By: Joanna Robinson
4.22
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more
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12. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
By: James Tynion IV
4.30
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more
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"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1
13. Cult Girls
By: Natalie Grand
4.34
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
Cult Girls based on a true story, tells the story of Talia and her friends as they struggle with gr… read more
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14. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2
By: James Tynion IV
4.15
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
One of the most critically acclaimed and bestselling horror books of 2021 returns for its shocking … read more
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15. The Immortal Thor, Vol. 1: All Weather Turns to Storm
By: Al Ewing
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A bold new beginning for Marvel’s God of Thunder, from acclaimed author Al Ewing! The Mighty Thor … read more
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16. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
By: Douglas Wolk
4.01
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revela… read more
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"If he does find himself back in the mountain of Marvels, or if he never leaves it, I hope he finds its glorious imaginary world changing all the time, keeping pace with the real one in which he lives…"-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
"As you explore the Marvel story, it becomes another world you can call your own, one that's constantly expanding and full of unfinished wonders. You can no more exhaust its possibilities than the rea…"-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
17. Fantastic Four: Life Story
By: Mark Russell
3.83
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An incredible exploration of the fabulous foursome's lives if they aged in real time across the dec… read more
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18. Ultimate Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Married With Children
By: Jonathan Hickman
4.51
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
The most surprising Spider-Man story of the 21st century! Visionary writer Jonathan Hickman (HOUSE … read more
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19. WHAT IF? CLASSIC: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION VOL. 1
By: Roy Thomas
3.56
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The first twelve awe-inspiring issues of the most awesomely off beat series off all time - collecte… read more
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20. Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World inside Your Head
By: Eliot Borenstein
3.70
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an ar… read more
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21. Cult Child
By: Vennie Kocsis
3.81
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
The harrowing first-person account of one child's ordeals inside the isolated commune of an ultra-f… read more
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22. Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Trial by Spider
By: Cody Ziglar
3.75
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Someone's not walking away from this one! Spider-Man faces the strongest super-powered foes and mos… read more
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23. Two Tickets To Paradise: From Cult to Comedy
By: Katie Love
4.71
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
The year is 1970. The horror soap opera Dark Shadows is all the rage, the Vietnam War is raging and… read more
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24. King Deadpool, Vol. 1
By: Kelly Thompson
3.81
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A new era begins for the Merc with a Mouth! Deadpool's newest job has him going after the King of M… read more
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"You know better than most what a violent world this is... even more so if you're walking around in it not being and looking how the dodgy majority want you to be and look."-Kelly Thompson, King Deadpool, Vol. 1
25. Avengers: Twilight
By: Chip Zdarsky
4.01
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A thrillingly dark new vision of the Avengers! In a gleaming new world of prosperity, Captain Ameri… read more
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26. Captain Marvel, Vol. 7: The Last of the Marvels
By: Kelly Thompson
3.72
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Vacation — all she never wanted! Carol Danvers and Jim Rhodes have rekindled their relationship (an… read more
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27. The Immortal Thor, Vol. 2: All Trials Are One
By: Al Ewing
3.97
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The All-Father sought answers to new troubles in memories of old. To refresh those memories, he con… read more
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28. Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies
By: Alex Grand
4.68
Format: 581 pages, Kindle Edition
This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the … read more
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29. Mentally Diseased (The Apostasy Trilogy Book 1)
By: Micah Allen Losh
4.83
Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition
When certitude becomes doubt and skepticism replaces credulity, self-reflection feels foreign. Mica… read more
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30. The 1975 Apocalypse
By: Jonny Halfhead
4.67
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the second short story by author and musician Jonny Halfhead as he once again delves into t… read more
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31. From God to Goth: A Nine Pills Sequel
By: Jonny Halfhead
5.00
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
What do you do when you leave a highly controlling religious group? When all your friends and famil… read more
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