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75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking‏

A wonderful new release from Taschen, with a big price tag but a must for any comic fanatic, check out the leaf through feature it looks like an incredibly indepth and as usual, beautifully made book.

Four-Color Fantasy

Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara: 75 years of DC Comics

In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material—at a time when comic books were mere repositories for the castoffs of the newspaper strips. What was initially considered to be disposable media for children was well on its way to becoming the mythology of our time—the 20th century’s answer to Atlas or Zorro. More than 40,000 comic books later, in honor of the publisher’s 75th anniversary, TASCHEN has produced the single most comprehensive book on DC Comics, in an XL edition even Superman might have trouble lifting. More than 2,000 images—covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles—are reproduced using the latest technology to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life as they’ve never been seen before. Telling the tales behind the tomes is 38-year DC veteran Paul Levitz, whose in-depth essays trace the company’s history, from its pulp origins through to the future of digital publishing.

Year-by-year timelines that fold out to nearly four feet and biographies of the legends who built DC make this an invaluable reference for any comic book fan.

Paul Levitz
Hardcover, 29 x 39.5 cm (11.4 x 15.6 in.),
720 pages
£ 135.00
ISBN: 978-3-8365-1981-6
Edition: English

More info and a leaf through feature here.

Big Apple

Some NY photography from the 70-80s. Fresh!

Bruce Davidson

John F. Conn

More here. Big up Benny for the heads up.