Of comics and men: a cultural history of American comic books

From comics to comic books (1842-1936)

The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines (1936-1940)

Comic books at war (1940-1945)

Ever more: the apogee and the fall (1945-1954)

Decline and rebirth (1955-1962)

The age of innovation (1963-1969)

Research and development by trial and error (1969-1979)

The recovery of the 1980s (1980-1993)

The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- )

Production

The business of comic books

The creators

The readers

Calls for censorship

Internal consecration

External consecration

Conclusion

Appendix: Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.