The long-awaited American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949 ships Monday!See a preview, and order it here!

The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of full-color hardcovers, where TwoMorrows’ top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! At long last, this 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father’s death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover, further documenting the ACBC series’ cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history! Edited by Keith Dallas and John Wells. Preview the book, and pre-order your copy here!

American Comic Book Chronicles: 1945-1949
Edited by Keith Dallas and John Wells
264-page full-color Hardcover
$49.95 cover price
Diamond Comic Distributors Order Code: JUN242032
ISBN13: 978-1-60549-099-1
Ships Nov. 18 from TwoMorrows Publishing, and at your local comics shop on Nov. 27