Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #283170 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Synopsis
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Fleetway and its successor IPC was the world's biggest comic-book publisher and its line of digest-sized "Picture Libraries" was the jewel in their crown. The most popular and longest lasting titles were "War", "Battle", "Air Ace and War at Sea" which ran for a combined total of over four and a half thousand issues. This book collects together 400 of the finest "War", "Battle", "Air Ace and War at Sea" covers, digitally remastered from the original archived artwork in a lavish format with the finest quality reproduction. Simply put they've never looked so good.

Customer Reviews

Aarrgghh! It's Fantastic
What an absolutley fantastic book, I've ben waiting for a book like this for years, I can't put it down. to see the original paintings is such a thrill, I started collecting war comics especialy War Picture Library since they first came out, I'm 57 now and they still have not lost their magic, even as a kid of 9 or 10 back in the late 50's, I was artracted to the art of the front covers, and I still am, I too often wondred what happen'd to the art, were they stored somewhre or dumped? what a joy it was to find that most of them survived, I wish I could own some?
David Roach has done a superb job, I tip my hat, congratulations.

A collection of old comics cover art
If You are a male "over 40", this book refresh the memories of first juvenile lectures made of comics, in this case war comics. In Italy this war stories made by heroisms by anglo-american-allied "one-piece" warriors against germans and japaneses (only rarely italians, russians and so on between "actors" in WWII were protagonists) were published until 1990'. For a boy was a fascinating lecture, not politically correct, but fascinating. This book refresh these memories, showing pictures that now, for an "adult eye", are "little" masterpieces in the figurative art.