Reading Room Indexes Added List
As indexing for each new book or periodical issue is completed,
the titles and numbers are listed here. It takes several months for
the newer titles and issues to be distributed around the Reading Room
Index, so this list doesn't guarantee that full indexing is already
in place.
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PERIODICALS ABOUT COMICS INDEXED IN THE READING ROOM INDEX AS OF
JANUARY 2010
(This list is being updated as new issues are
done)
- Amazing Heroes, no. 1-204 (complete, courtesy of Bob Klein &
Brian Mowbray)
- Bang! no. 6, 9, 11-13 (1971-1977)
- Les Cahiers de la Bande Dessinée, no. 56-77, 79-80, 82-84,
88-89 (1984-1990)
- Cartoonist Profiles, no. 1-150 (1-99 courtesy of R.C.
Harvey)
- Cartoons Magazine, v. 5, no. 1 (1914); v. 11, no. 4 (1917)
- Circulation, v. 1: no. 3-4 (1921); v. 2: no. 9, 11-12
(1922-1923); v. 4: no. 18-19; v. 5: no. 24-25 (1926)
- Comic Art News & Reviews, no. 1-5
- Comic Book Artist, no. 1-2, 7, 12 (1998-2001)
- Comic Book Marketplace, no. 1-22, 24, 27, 39-53, 55-64, 69-70,
72, 78 (1991-2000)
- Comic Book Marketplace, no. 1-2 (1993)
- Comic Book Profiles, no. 3-8 (1998-1999)
- Comic Culture, v. 1, no. 1 - v. 2, no. 5 (1993-1995)
complete
- Comics Feature, no. 4, 6, 12/13, 16 (1980-1982)
- The Comics Journal, no. 32-272 (1977-2005) (32-139 courtesy of
Pete Coogan)
- Comixene, Nr. 23-25 (1979)
- Crash the Quarterly Comic Book Review, no. 1-2
- Crimmers (Harvard Journal of Pictorial Fiction), all 3 issues
1975-1976
- David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview, no. 1-109, 111-116,
119-126, 133, 139-140, 142, 144 (1-100 from issue 100)
- Escape, no. 8, 11-12 (1986-1987)
- Graphic Story Magazine, no. 14-16 (1971-1974)
- Graphic Story World, no. 5-8 (1972)
- Hogan's Alley, no. 1-8 (1994-2000)
- Inks, v. 1-4 (all 12 issues)
- International Journal of Comic Art, v. 1, no. 1 - v. 7, no. 2
(1999-2005)
- The Jack Kirby Collector, no. 1-20
- Juxtapoz, v. 1-v. 5, no. 2
- The Monster Times, no. 1-15, 17-43, 45.
- Nemo, no. 1-32 (complete)
- 9e Art : les Cahiers du Musée de la Bande Dessinée, no.
1-10
- The Nostalgia Journal, no. 2-31 (courtesy of Pete Coogan)
- Phénix, no. 1, 3-6, 12, 30 (1966-1973)
- La Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre la Historieta,no.
1-8, 22-23 (2001-2006)
- Riverdale Ramblings, no. 92-94, 104
- Ron Goulart's Comics History Magazine, no. 1-8 (1996-1998)
- Schtroumpf : les Cahiers de la Bande Dessinée, no. 7-10, 13-15,
17-31, 53 (1972-1982)
- Spot BD, no. 1-4 (1986)
- The World of Comic Art, v. 1, no. 1-4; v. 2, no. 1-3 and 4b; v.
3, no. 1 (1966-1972)
BOOKS ABOUT COMICS INDEXED IN THE READING ROOM INDEX AS OF
OCTOBER 2004
(This list is being updated as new books are done)
- Adult Comics, an Introduction / Roger Sabin (Routledge,
1993)
- The Adventurous Decade / Ron Goulart (Arlington House,
1975)
- The Aesthetics of Comics / David Carrier (Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2000)
- All in Color for a Dime / Dick Lupoff & Don Thompson, eds.
(Krause Publications, 1997)
- America's Great Comic-Strip Artists / Richard Marschall
(Abbeville Press, 1989)
- The Art of the Comic Book, an Aesthetic History / Robert C.
Harvey (University Press of Mississippi, 1996)
- The Art of the Funnies, an Aesthetic History / Robert C. Harvey
(University Press of Mississippi, 1994)
- La Bande Dessinée / Thierry Groensteen (Milan, 1996)
- La Bande Dessinée au Québec / Mira Falardeau (Boréal,
1994)
- La Bande Dessinée en 10 Leçons / Henri Filippini, Michel
Bourgeois (Hachette, 1976)
- Batman : the Complete History / Les Daniels (San Francisco :
Chronicle Books, 1999)
- Bonzer: Australian Comics 1900s-1990s / Annette Shiell, ed.
(Elgua Media, 1998)
- Cartoon Cavalcade / Thomas Craven (Simon and Schuster,
1943)
- Cartooning for Suffrage / Alice Sheppard (University of New
Mexico Press, 1994)
- A Century of Women Cartoonists / Trina Robbins (Kitchen Sink
Press, 1993)
- Children of the Yellow Kid / Robert C. Harvey (Frye Art
Museum/University of Washington Press, 1998)
- Comic Art in America / Stephen Becker (Simon and Schuster,
1959)
- The Comic-Book Book / Don Thompson & Dick Lupoff, eds. (Krause
Publications, 1998)
- The Comic Book Heroes, from the Silver Age to the Present /
Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones (Crown Publishers, 1985)
- Comic Book Rebels / Stanley Wiater, Stephen R. Bissette (Donald
I. Fine, 1993)
- Comic Books and America, 1945-1954 / William W. Savage, Jr.
(University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)
- The Comics / Coulton Waugh (University Press of Mississippi,
1991, originally 1947)
- Comics : vom Massenblatt ins multimediale Abenteuer / Andreas
C. Knigge (Rowohlt, 1996)
- Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels / Roger Sabin (Phaidon,
1996)
- Commercial Art, a Complete Guide to Drawing, Illustration,
Cartooning and Painting / Gene Byrnes (Simon and Schuster,
1952)
- Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books / Hubert H. Crawford
(Jonathan David Publishers, 1978)
- Dangerous Drawings, Interviews with Graphix & Comix Artists /
Andrea Juno (New York : Juno Books, 1997)
- Dark Knights, the New Comics in Context / Greg S. McCue with
Clive Bloom (Pluto Press, 1993)
- Disney's Art of Animation / Bob Thomas (Hyperion, 1991)
- The Encyclopedia of American Comics / Ron Goulart (Facts On
File, 1990)
- Encyclopédie des Bandes Dessinées / Marjorie Alessandrini
(Albin Michel, 1986)
- The Fleischer Story / Leslie Cabarga (Nostalgia Press, 1976)
(Courtesy of Don Markstein)
- From Girls to Grrrlz / Trina Robbins (Chronicle Books,
1999)
- The Funnies : 100 years of American Comic Strips / Ron Goulart
( Adams Pub., 1995)
- Gay Comics / ed. by Robert Triptow (New American Library,
1989)
- The Great American Comic Strip / Judith O'Sullivan (Little,
Brown and Company, 1990)
- The Great Women Superheroes / Trina Robbins (Kitchen Sink
Press, 1996)
- Le Guide de la Bédé Francophone / Yves Frémion (Syros
Alternatives, 1990)
- A Haunt of Fears : the strange history of the British horror
comics campaign / Martin Barker (Pluto Press, 1984)
- Histoire de la Bande Dessinée / Gérard Blanchard (Verviers :
Marabout, 1974)
- Historia de los Comics / Josep Toutain, Javier Coma (Toutain,
1982)
- Historia del Comic Español, 1875-1939 / Antonio Martín
(Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1978)
- A History of American Graphic Humor, v. 1-2 / William Murrell
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933-1938)
- A History of the Comic Strip / Pierre Couperie, et al. (Crown
Publishers, 1968)
- History of the Comic Strip, v. 1-2 / David Kunzle (University
of California Press, 1973-1990)
- A History of Underground Comics / Mark James Estren. 3rd ed.
(Ronin Publishing, 1993)
- Horror Comics, the Illustrated History / Mike Benton (Taylor
Pub. Co., 1991)
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cartoon Animals / Jeff Rovin
(Prentice Hall, 1991)
- Kitchen Sink Press, the First 25 Years / Dave Schreiner
(Kitchen Sink Press, 1994)
- The Mad World of William M. Gaines / Frank Jacobs (Lyle Stuart,
1972)
- Manga! Manga! / Frederik L. Schodt (Kodansha International,
1986)
- Marvel, Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics /
Les Daniels (Harry N. Abrams, 1991)
- Over 50 Years of American Comic Books / Ron Goulart (Mallard
Press, 1991)
- Panel by Panel, a History of Australian Comics / John Ryan
(Cassell Australia, 1979)
- The Penguin Book of Comics, a Slight History / George Perry,
Alan Aldridge (Penguin Books, 1971)
- Portraits de BD / Daniel Fouss (J.-M. Collet, 1990)
- Pulp Demons, International Dimensions of the Postwar
Anti-Comics Campaign / ed. John A. Lent (Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1999)
- Puros Cuentos, v. 1-3 / Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea, Armando
Bartra (Grijalbo, 1988-1994)
- Ron Goulart's Great History of Comic Books (Contemporary Books,
1986)
- Seal of Approval, the History of the Comics Code / Amy Kiste
Nyberg (University of Mississipi, 1998)
- Seduction of the Innocent / Frederic Wertham (Rinehart,
1954)
- Stap Me! The British Newspaper Strip / Denis Gifford (Shire
Publications, 1971)
- Super Heroes : a Modern Mythology / Richard Reynolds
(University Press of Mississippi, 1994)
- Superheroes : Joe Kubert's Wonderful World of Comics
(Watson-Guptill, 1999)
- Système de la Bande Dessinée / Thierry Groensteen (Presses
Universitaires de France, 1999)
- Understanding Comics / Scott McCloud (HarperCollins Publishers,
1994)
- Women and the Comics / Trina Robbins, Catherine Yronwode
(Eclipse Books, 1985)
- Women in the Comics / Maurice Horn (Chelsea House Publishers,
1977)
- The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons / Maurice Horn (Gale
Research, 1980) (names and subjects)
- The World Encyclopedia of Comics / Maurice Horn (Chelsea House,
1976)
RUNS OF COMIC BOOKS INDEXED IN THE READING ROOM INDEX AS OF
SEPTEMBER 2004
(Comic books for which complete or substantial indexing (over 50
issues) has been added. This list is being updated as new comic books
are done)
- Action Comics
- Adventure Comics
- The Avengers
- Amar Chitra Katha
- Arcade, the Comics Review (courtesy of Catherine Yronwode)
- Archie Comics
- Astonishing Tales
- Bizarre Adventures
- Captain America
- Captain America Comics
- Captain Marvel
- The Defenders
- Fight Comics (courtesy of Gene Reed and Grand Comics Database
Project)
- Gay Comix
- Ghost Rider
- Heavy Metal
- Jumbo Comics
- Orient Express
- Planet Comics (courtesy of Lou Mougin and Grand Comics Database
Project)
- Rangers Comics (courtesy of Lou Mougin and Grand Comics
Database Project)
- Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane
- True Comics
- Wings Comics (courtesy of Lou Mougin and Grand Comics Database
Project)
- Wonder Woman
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