Tops (Graphic Novel)

The Complete Collection of Charles Biro's Visionary 1949 Comic Book Series

Tops (Graphic Novel)
Michael T Gilbert, Charles Biro
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NZ$ 101.99
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NZ$ 86.69
Hardback
h356 x 266mm - 260pg
16 Sep 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781683964643
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In 1949, the ambitious Biro - who had previously co-created the realistically brutal comic Crime Does Not pay edited and wrote an over-sized comic aimed at adults called Tops. Like several other radical adult comics projects that would follow, it proved to be a commercial failure, and lasted only two Life magazine-sized issues. The original comics have since become a legendary holy grail among comics fans and historians, fetching as much as GBP6,000 on the collector' s market, written about, but rarely seen and never reprinted. Until now.
Charles Biro (1911-1972) was one of the early creative pioneers of the comic book industry. He was instrumental in ushering in the crime genre in 1942 with Crime Does Not Pay, an unusually gritty series that became a target of the anti-comics hysteria of the ' 40s and ' 50s. His longest professional affiliation was with the forward-thinking Lev Gleason Publications, for whom he edited Daredevil (not THAT Daredevil), Crime Does Not Pay and, in 1949, an experiment to produce comics for an adult readership, Tops. Michael T. Gilbert has been a professional cartoonist since 1973, writing and drawing characters as diverse as Superman and Spongebob Squarepants. Gilbert' s signature character remains his creature fighting hero, Mr. Monster, which he created in 1983. Additionally, Michael has written a comic history column for Roy Thomas' s Alter Ego magazine since 1998, and has edited Dark Horse' s 2014 The Secret Files of Dr. Drew reprint volume. He lives in Akron, OH.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781683964643
Published: 16 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Format: Hardback
Height: 356mm
Width: 266mm
Pages: 260

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