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Wooley's History of the Comic Book (1986) comic books

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    Wooley's History of the Comic Book (1986) 1899-1936
    Wooley's History of the Comic Book (1986) #1899-1936
    Published 1986 by Charles Wooley.

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    The Origin Of The Superhero: a study of the evolution of the comic format into the funny books we know and love today. Privately published by Charles Wooley, this first edition was limited to 1150 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Includes several black and white reproductions of the covers to old Victorian, Platinum, and Golden Age classics, a few pages from Siegel and Shuster's Dr. Mystic/Dr. Occult stories originally published in The Comics Magazine and More Fun Comics, and a 1934-1936 chronological checklist of the first "modern" newsstand comics. 52 pages, saddle-stitched, B&W.