Foreword Tom Armstrong ... 7
Introduction, John Carlin and Sheena Wagstaff ... 9
In Praise of Folly: The Early Development of Comics in Art, John Carlin ... 10

THE COMIC STRIP
The Golden Age: Origins and Early Masters, Richard Marschall ... 16
Mass Appeal: The Development of Realism, Sequential Narrative and Social Satire, Jerry Robinson ... 30

THE COMIC BOOK
Representing Force: From Superman to the Fantastic Four, John Carlin and Gary Groth ... 38
Nothing Is Sacred: From EC to Underground Comix,  John Carlin and Kim Thompson ... 42

THE CARTOON
More Vulgar Modernism, J. Hoberman ... 50
Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Comic Quotation in Contemporary American Painting, John Carlin and Sheena Wagstaff ... 54

Checklist of the Exhibition ... 70

• Luciano, Dale.  "Whitney Museum Catalogue"  [review.]  Comics Journal 88 (January 1984): 42-43.