TASCHEN 75 Years of DC Comics book Unveiling @ New York Comic Con with Paul Levitz
TASCHEN-PRESS: The much anticipated 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by TASCHEN and DC Comics, coming out this November, will be unveiled this weekend at New York Comic Con. Due to the fact there are no current review copies, (and when review copies come in November they will be extremely limited), Author Paul Levitz has agreed to make himself available this weekend for those that would like to look through one of the copies of the book and potentially have questions for him, about the book, etc.
CLICK THRU for a selection of (thumbnailed) preview-pages, as well check out Taschen.com for more about the 720-pager hardcover book! (Online priced at £135 per). Gawds but I miss comicbooks!
PRESS: 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.
[Above text description via Taschen]
