Comic Shop : The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture /
"The early 1970s saw the birth of the modern comic book shop. Its rise was due in large part to a dynamic entrepreneur, Phil Seuling. His direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers, bypassing middlemen. Stores could better customize their offerings and independ...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press,
[2019]
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Edición: | Updated and expanded edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. The cockroaches of pop culture
- Magical powers
- This bold guy (1968/73)
- Nonreturnable (1973/80)
- An Ogre's story
- Secret Convergence
- The Valkyries
- Heyday (1980/84)
- Turtles, mice, and fish (1984/88)
- Collectors vs. readers
- Raina's world
- Re-rebirth
- Deathmate (1988/94)
- The mailman (1994/2016)
- The moral of the story
- Part 2. Notable comic shops of the United States and Canada
- "All of the above" stores
- Comics galleries
- Old school
- Pop culture stores
- Comics and ...
- Best of the best
- List of notable comic shops of the United States and Canada
- Epilogue: A Golden Age of art and anxiety.