A list of book-length critical anthologies of comics, usually containing additional essays. Individual book entries may include the book's Table of Contents, on-site reviews, printed or online review citations, links to online information, and more. Where available, the original publication information for the anthologized comics is also included.

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• 75 Years of the Comics. Into. Maurice Horn. Boston and New York: Boston Book & Art / New York Cultural Center, 1971. SBN 8435-1010-2 (hc).
• Barrier, Michael, and Martin Williams, eds. A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics . New York: Smithsonian Institution Press and Harry N. Abrams, 1981. 336pp. ISBN 0-87474-228-5 (cloth), 0-8109-0696-1 (HNA[?]).
• The Best Comics of the Decade: 1980-1990, Vols. I and II , Selected by the Editors of The Comics Journal.
• Blackbeard, Bill, and Dale Crain. The Comic Strip Century . Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1995. 2 volumes. 480 pp. ISBN 3878163557 (cloth).
• Blackbeard, Bill, and Martin Williams. The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics.
• Callahan, Bob, ed. The New Comics Anthology.
• Callahan, Bob, ed. The New Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2004. 398pp. ISBN 1588341836 (hc).
• Craven, Thomas (ed.) ass't by Florence & Sydney Weiss. Cartoon Calvacade. Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, 1944. People's Book Club Ed.
• Donahue, Don, and Susan Goodrick, eds. The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics.
• Feiffer, Jules. The Great Comic Book Heroes. 1965. New York: Dial, 1977. 189 pp. ISBN 0803730454 (paper).
• Scott, Naomi, ed. Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics. Simon & Schuster, 1979?
• Spiegelman, Art and Françoise Mouly, eds. RAW.  1980-1991