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As Christopher Nolan s Batman films and releases from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have regularly topped the box office charts, fans and critics alike might assume that the comic book movie is a distinctly twenty-first-century form. Yet adaptations of comics have been an integral part of American cinema from its very inception, with comics characters regularly leaping from the page to the screen and cinematic icons spawning comics of their own. Movie Comics is the first book to study the long history of both comics-to-film and film-to-comics adaptations, covering everything from silent films starring Happy Hooligan to sound films and serials featuring Dick Tracy and Superman to comic books starring John Wayne, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Abbott & Costello, Alan Ladd, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.



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Blair Davis

Blair Davis is an Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. His books include The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2012) and Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page (Rutgers University Press, 2017) .

His website can be found at: www.moviecomics.net

Davis has essays included in such anthologies as Reel Food: Essays on Film and Food (Routledge, 2004) , Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) , American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium (University Press of Mississippi, 2010) , Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington Books, 2014) and The Blacker the Ink: African Americans and Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Sequential Art (Rutgers University Press, 2015) .

Davis is on the Executive Board of the Comics Studies Society, and serves as co-chair of the Comics Studies Scholarly Interest Group with the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. His new book - Movie Comics: Page to Screen, Screen to Page - is about the intersections between film and comics from 1930-1960. He is currently writing a new book for Rutgers' 'Quick Takes' series called Comic Book Movies in which he traces the way in which comics have been adapted to film through to the present.



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