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2018: The innocent seduced and the credulous corrupted. Stories inspired by the way it really was, in a business where con men and liars stole everything they could from perfectly willing victims, selling second-rate …
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2018: Betrayal. Triumph. Sudden death. No talent, but blind rage will do. More adventures and intrigue drawn from real-world stories of the comic book business And if you want to know which are the closest to …
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2018: Secret Love. My Confession. Crime Does Not Pay. And you thought they were just comic book titles, huh? Art imitates life in an industry with more than its share of drama and deception, as a tale built around re…
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2018: Secret Love. My Confession. Crime Does Not Pay. And you thought they were just comic book titles, huh? Art imitates life in an industry with more than its share of drama and deception, as a tale built around re…
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2018: Secret Love. My Confession. Crime Does Not Pay. And you thought they were just comic book titles, huh? Art imitates life in an industry with more than its share of drama and deception, as a tale built around re…
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2018: SERIES PREMIERE! HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comic book racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create t…
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2023: MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail? HOWARD CHAYKIN's three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom-joyful, …
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2023: MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail? HOWARD CHAYKIN's three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom-joyful, …
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2023: The 1980s births a completely unanticipated commercial and artistic renaissance but Editorial has notes. And fans who only yesterday were sneaking time on the school office mimeograph become today's commerc…
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2023: After years of being kept at bay, a new generation finally scales the castle walls, only to discover the hacks have beaten a hasty retreat, leaving nothing behind them but nostalgia. The newcomers arrive with a b…
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2023: Threatened by ginned-up moral outrage, the money-minting luster of a decade ago long gone, four-color micro-moguls shoot themselves in the foot to hold on to what's left. Meanwhile, fandom takes hold hard in …
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2023: Threatened by ginned-up moral outrage, the money-minting luster of a decade ago long gone, four-color micro-moguls shoot themselves in the foot to hold on to what's left. Meanwhile, fandom takes hold hard in …
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2019: HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters create the foundations of to…
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2023: It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life's work as dismal failures and a waste of that life...in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation.…