Publisher's Synopsis
A groundbreaking collection in both scope and detail, The Untold History of Black Comic Books traces the changing image of African Americans in comic books from the 1940s right up to the present day. Just in time for the new millennium exploration of diversity in the field, this exciting work presents sample comic books featuring African Americans from the past seven decades! Perfect for fans and comic scholars alike, it includes nearly 200-pages of rarely seen classic and mainstream comics, many in full-color, researched and compiled by two of America's foremost comic book historians.
