Jones, Gerard, and Will Jacobs. The Comic Book Heroes: The First History of Modern Comic Books from the Silver Age to the Present. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1996. 400 pp. ISBN 0-517-55440-2 (paper).
See also Gerard Jones's list of errata to this edition, 1998/08/08, and the book's previous version (1985) and
    PART ONE: THE SILVER AGE
  1. Presenting the Silver Age . . . 2
  2. The Superman Mythos . . . 13
  3. Strange Adventures in Space . . . 19
  4. Bizarre Characters and Fantastic Weapons . . . 25
  5. The Return of the Heroes . . . 33
  6. The Other Guys . . . 40
  7. With the Sudden Fury of a Thunderbolt . . . 48
  8. Of Amazons and Alloys . . . 55
  9. The Hero Who Could Be You . . . 59
  10. The Birth of Fandom . . . 63
  11. The Marvel Age of Comics . . . 68
  12. The World's Strangest Heroes . . . 75
  13. Man and Superman . . . 79
  14. Building a Universe . . . 89
  15. Pow! . . . 96
  16. The Cosmic Saga . . . 103
  17. Artists and Heroes . . . 109
  18. The DC Experiment . . . 120
  19. The Marvel Expansion . . . 130
  20. The End of the Silver Age . . . 138


    21.  PART TWO: THE AWKWARD AGE

  21. Relevance . . . 146
  22. Barbarism . . . 152
  23. Kirby Was There . . 156
  24. Marvel: Phase Two . . . 163
  25. Horror from the Swamps . . . 170
  26. The Batman . . . 178
  27. Save the Talking Tiger . . . 181
  28. Downhill Flows the Mainstream . . . 191
  29. Don't, He Said . . . 202
  30. Their Own Devices . . . 209
  31. Trapped in a World They Never Made . . . 214
  32. Trouble Shooter . . . 220
  33. Like a Phoenix from the Ashes . . . 229


    34.  PART THREE: THE GILDED AGE

  34. The New Royalty . . . 240
  35. Elektra Complex . . . 245
  36. Independence . . . 251
  37. Flash of Silver, Flash of Gold . . . 260
  38. The revolution Eats Its Children . . . 271
  39. Comics Get Hip . . . 281
  40. Death and Pain . . . 290
  41. Our Favorite Year . . . 296
  42. The Big Party . . . 312
  43. Invasion . . . 321
  44. Retreat . . . 331
  45. Image Is Everything . . . 343
  46. Death and Remembrance . . . 352
  47. To Be Continued . . . ? . . . 367

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