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Best Nonfiction about Comics
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The Comic Book Heroes: The First History of Modern Comic Books - From the Silver Age to the Present
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Gerard Jones
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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Scott McCloud
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4.00 avg rating — 131,575 ratings
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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
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Bradford W. Wright
3.94 avg rating — 500 ratings
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Comics and Sequential Art
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Will Eisner
4.11 avg rating — 6,281 ratings
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All in Color for a Dime
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Richard A. Lupoff
3.97 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 1
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Jim Steranko
4.42 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Steranko History of Comics, Vol. 2
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Jim Steranko
4.30 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Comic Fandom Reader
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Bill Schelly
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The Great Comic Book Heroes
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Jules Feiffer
4.13 avg rating — 275 ratings
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From Girls to Grrrlz : A History of Women's Comics from Teens to Zines
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Trina Robbins
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Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
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Art Spiegelman
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Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels
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Roger Sabin
3.96 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Furello Journeys
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Bill Schelly
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Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age
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Dan Hassler-Forest
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The Comic-Book Book
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Don Thompson
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