Steve Canyon Volume 1: 1947-1948

Steve Canyon Volume 1: 1947-1948
Author: Milton Caniff
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1613771258

Steve Canyon like you've never seen it before — reproduced directly from Milton Caniff's personal set of syndicate proofs! For the first time: the definitive edition of the Steve Canyon newspaper strip by Milton Caniff featuring every Sunday in color and the daily strips in their original, uncropped versions. Caniff quit Terry and the Pirates in 1946 to begin Steve Canyon and it became his biggest-selling work. Forever known as the "Rembrandt of the Comic Strip," Caniff is at the absolute peak of his artistic prowess in these strips. Your passport is stamped for Adventure, Intrigue, and Danger on your expedition to exotic locales with your pilot, the one and only Steve Canyon! The horizons are unlimited after World War II when Steve Canyon assembles a flight crew of veterans for his new air-transport business. Action flies high as Canyon and his men befriend Happy Easter, cross swords with the hirsute Herr Splitz, and match wits with Chief Izm. The Caniff women are also on display, as Canyon meets the steely yet sexy “Copper” Calhoon; the beautiful schemer, Delta; that modern-day Mata Hari, Madame Lynx; Dr. Deen Wilderness, who is as capable as she is lovely; plus Captain Shark, Convoy, and the footloose Fancy. The Library of American Comics launches this highly-awaited reprinting by collecting every daily and full-color Sunday from 1947 to 1948 in a single hardcover volume. There’s excitement, humor, lovely women, and wonderful art in the exciting Caniff style!

The 1950s

The 1950s
Author: William H. Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313052956

Have the 1950s been overly romanticized? Beneath the calm, conformist exterior, new ideas and attitudes were percolating. This was the decade of McCarthyism, Levittowns, and men in gray flannel suits, but the 1950s also saw bold architectural styles, the rise of paperback novels and the Beat writers, Cinema Scope and film noir, television variety shows, the Golden Age of the automobile, subliminal advertising, fast food, Frisbees, and silly putty. Meanwhile, teens attained a more prominent role in American culture with hot rods, rock 'n' roll, preppies and greasers, and—gasp—juvenile delinquency. At the same time, a new technological threat, the atom bomb, lurked beneath the surface of the postwar decade. This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.
Author: Vincent Terrace
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 1331
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786486414

This fully updated and expanded edition covers over 10,200 programs, making it the most comprehensive documentation of television programs ever published. In addition to covering the standard network and cable entertainment genres, the book also covers programs generally not covered elsewhere in print (or even online), including Internet series, aired and unaired pilot films, erotic series, gay and lesbian series, risque cartoons and experimental programs from 1925 through 1945.

The Cambridge Companion to Comics

The Cambridge Companion to Comics
Author: Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009255681

Interweaving history and theory, this book unpacks the complexity of comics, covering formal, critical and institutional dimensions.

Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows

Harry and Wally's Favorite TV Shows
Author: Harry Castleman
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1989
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Covering 40 years of TV series, this book concentrates on what is likely to be on today in prime time, including network, cable, and local independent programming.