Comic Book Comics #1

(March 2008)

Legalese! (Table of Contents: 1)

Comic Book Comics / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

Characters

Betty Boop; Doc Savage; Mickey Mouse; Popeye; Buck Rogers; The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; The Spirit [Denny Colt]; Superman [Clark Kent]; Tarzan [John Clayton]; Zorro [Don Diego de la Vega]; Koko the Clown

Synopsis

Illustrated list of trademarks & copyrights featured in the issue.

Reprints

• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2012 series) (May 2012) [Artwork rearranged and reduced to fit inside two pages.]
which is reprinted
• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (November 2016)

Funnies Get Famous (Table of Contents: 2)

Comic Book Comics / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

Genre

humor; non-fiction

Characters

Joseph Pulitzer; James Sweeney; Josef Noa; Rudolf Charousek; The Yellow Kid; Richard F. Outcault; William Randolph Hearst; Henry Conway "Bud" Fisher; Winsor McCay; Little Nemo; Gertie the Dinosaur; Max Fleischer; Waldemar Klaempffert; Koko the Clown

Synopsis

Traces the origins of comic art, including the Outcault's Yellow Kid and McCay's Little Nemo, plus how the animation work of Max Fleischer grew up contemporaneously.

Reprints

• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2012 series) (May 2012)
• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (November 2016)

Amazing Spicy Science Mystery Stories! (Table of Contents: 3)

Comic Book Comics / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

Genre

humor; non-fiction

Characters

Cthulhu; Doc Savage; Jack Kirby; Buck Rogers; The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; Tarzan [John Clayton]; Frank A. Munsey; Hugo Gernsback; Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster; Hugo Danner; Friedrich Nietzsche

Synopsis

Recounts the rise of pulp magazine adventures and how they inspired young Jack Kirby and Jerry Siegel, leading to Kirby's employment by Max Fleischer.

Reprints

• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2012 series) (May 2012)
• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (November 2016)

Toon Feud (Table of Contents: 4)

Comic Book Comics / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

Genre

humor; non-fiction

Characters

Bluto; Betty Boop; Clark Gable; Jack Kirby; Mickey Mouse; Popeye; Koko the Clown; Max Fleischer; Jerry Siegel; Carole Lombard; Bimbo

Synopsis

Recounts Kirby's time employed by Max Fleischer and how Fleischer originally found more success than Disney by being cost-conscientious, but Fleischer's labor troubles and Disney's success with Snow White saw Disney eclipse Fleischer before the end of the 1930s.

Reprints

• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2012 series) (May 2012)
• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (November 2016)

New Action Fun (Table of Contents: 5)

Comic Book Comics / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

Genre

humor; non-fiction

Characters

The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Bluto; Ignatz Mouse; Jeff; Jack Kirby; Mutt; The Shadow [Lamont Cranston]; Tarzan [John Clayton]; Dick Tracy; Zorro [Don Diego de la Vega]; Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster; Joe Simon; Maxwell C. Gaines; The Yellow Kid; Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson; Henri Duval; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Bob Kane; Harry Donenfeld; Victor Fox; Will Eisner

Synopsis

Explores the creation of Superman and the beginning of Kirby's career in comic books.

Reprints

• in The Comic Book History of Comics (IDW, 2012 series) (May 2012)

Next Issue: (Table of Contents: 6)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente; Ryan Dunlavey

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

World's Greatest Comic Book Collection! (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Bonus! (Table of Contents: 8)

Comic Book Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

Indexer Notes

First page of "Crime Oh Man, Does it Pay!" from Awesome: The Indie Spinner Rack Anthology (Evil Twin Comics, 2007) #[nn].

Red More Comics - Get More Smarter (Table of Contents: 9)

Action Philosophers! / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Comic Book Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

Fred Van Lente

Pencils

Ryan Dunlavey

Inks

Ryan Dunlavey

Colors

Ryan Dunlavey

Letters

Ryan Dunlavey

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You Only Think You Know Comics History!

Indexer Notes

Back cover.