Jacobs, Will, and Gerard Jones. The Comic Book Heroes: From the Silver Age to the Present. New York: Crown Publishers, 1985. ISBN 0-517-55440-2 (paper).
See also the revised version (1996).
    PART ONE
  1. Presenting the Silver Age . . . 3
  2. Strange Adventures in Space . . . 10
  3. The Superman Mythos . . . 20
  4. Bizarre Characters and Fantastic Weapons . . . 28
  5. The Return of the Heroes . . . 38
  6. The Fantastic Four . . . 48
  7. Of Anzio, Amazons, and Alloys . . . 56
  8. Spider-Man, the Hero Who Could Be You . . . 62
  9. The Birth of Fandom . . . 68
  10. Man and Superman . . . 73
  11. Superman's Pals . . . 80
  12. The Marvel Age of Comics . . . 87
  13. The World's Strangest Heroes . . . 98
  14. Marvel's Hero Teams . . . 107
  15. Classic DC . . . 114
  16. The Cosmic Saga . . . 120
  17. Deadman . . . 127
  18. The DC Experiment . . . 130
  19. The Marvel Expansion . . . 140
  20. The End of the Silver Age . . . 151

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     PART TWO

  21. Relevance . . . 157
  22. Marvel: Phase 2 . . . 162
  23. The Batman . . . 169
  24. Conan and Kin . . . 174
  25. Kirby Was There . . . 179
  26. "Dear Joe" . . . 184
  27. Horror from the Swamps . . . 190
  28. Marvel's Monstrous Heroes . . . 195
  29. The Golden Age Revival . . . 204
  30. The DC Mainstream . . . 209
  31. The Marvel Mainstream . . . 214
  32. The Legion of Super-Heroes . . . 222
  33. Cosmic Zap . . . 226
  34. Masters of Kung Fu . . . 232
  35. The DC Barbarians . . . 238
  36. Explosions and Implosions . . .242
  37. The New X-Men . . . 245

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     PART THREE

  38. A Look Ahead . . . 259

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