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    • Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture
    • By: Laurence Maslon, Michael Kantor
    • Narrated by: Laurence Maslon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more....

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    • The Untold Story
    • By: Sean Howe
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,898 ratings
    • The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history: Marvel Comics....

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    • The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
    • By: David Hajdu
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 883 ratings
    • In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created in the bold, pulpy pages of comic books....

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    • The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture
    • By: Dan Gearino
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and Controversies
    • By: Alex Grand
    • Narrated by: Alex Grand
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them.

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    • The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
    • By: Bradford W. Wright
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • As American as jazz or rock and roll, comic books have been central in the nation's popular culture since Superman's 1938 debut in Action Comics #1. In Comic Book Nation, Bradford W. Wright offers an engaging, illuminating, and often provocative history of the comic book industry....

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    • A Salute to the Comic Book Heroes and Villains Who Fought for Their Country
    • By: Jason Inman
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran and former host of All Access, DC Comics' web show, Jason Inman, discusses the influence war has had on some of the most memorable superheroes in comics....

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    • Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
    • By: Peyton Brunet, Blair Davis, Trina Robbins - foreword
    • Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers....

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    • The World Inside Your Head
    • By: Eliot Borenstein
    • Narrated by: Todd Menesses
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form....

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    • A Memoir in Six Scenes
    • By: Moshe Kasher
    • Narrated by: Moshe Kasher, Larry Wilson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: “What’s next?” Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot....

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    • How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
    • By: Karl Stock
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Karl Stock reveals the true story of the wild times, passion, and determination that helped, hindered, and saw the reinvention of comics....

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    • Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain
    • By: Ryan North
    • Narrated by: Ryan North
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In this introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today’s most advanced technologies....

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    • The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip
    • By: Nevin Martell
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes....

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    • The Popular Politics of Peanuts
    • By: Blake Scott Ball
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Charlie Brown's America is a historical journey through the tumultuous decades of the Cold War as seen through the eyes of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang....

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    • More Heroes! More Villains! More Science! Spectacular Second Edition
    • By: James Kakalios
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught "Everything I Needed to Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books", a hugely popular university course that generated coast-to-coast media attention for its unique method of explaining complex physics concepts....

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    • Adaptation from Panel to Frame
    • By: Scott Henderson, Barry Keith Grant
    • Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Examining current debates and the questions raised by comics adaptations, including those around authorship, style, and textual fidelity, the contributors consider the topic from an array of approaches that take into account representations of sexuality, gender, and race....

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    • A Cultural History of American Comic Books
    • By: Jean-Paul Gabilliet
    • Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Originally published in France and long sought in English translation....

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    • The Man behind Marvel
    • By: Bob Batchelor
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable as the thrilling adventures he spun for decades....

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    • By: Patrick Kinney, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Even when he was a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college his comic strip, Igdoof, was so popular it spread to other universities....

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