About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Forrest J Ackerman, Peter Sanderson, Jerry Bails, Catherine Yronwode, Gail Simone, Art Spiegelman, Jules Feiffer, Rich Johnston, Dez Skinn, Peter Coogan, Clifford Meth, George Khoury, Manny Farber, David Anthony Kraft, Gary Groth, Simcha Weinstein, Shel Dorf, Valerie D'Orazio, Ted White, Darren Schroeder, Max Douglas, Tom Spurgeon, Dennis Daniel, Troy Brownfield, Maggie Thompson, Gerard Jones, Trina Robbins, John Jackson Miller, Ron Goulart, R. C. Harvey, Christopher Knowles, Robert Rodi, Les Daniels, Don Markstein's Toonopedia, Harold Rosenberg, Bhob Stewart, Paul Gravett, Denis Gifford, Eli Eshed, Rick Marschall, Joe Zabel, Heidi MacDonald, Carol A. Strickland, Gilbert Seldes, Robert Warshow, Ian Gordon, Benoit Peeters, Mike Conroy, Roger Sabin, Brent Frankenhoff, Christopher B. Field, Todd Hignite. Excerpt: Peter John Sanderson, Jr. (born April 25, 1952 in Milton, Massachusetts) is a comic book critic and historian, as well as an instructor/lecturer in the New York area concerning the study of graphic novels/comic books as literature. He is best known for his work as a researcher at the two main American comics companies, DC and Marvel, where he helped to catalog the various fictional characters that comprised their respective continuities. He was born on April 25, 1952 in Milton, Massachusetts to Peter John Sanderson, Sr. A graduate of Columbia University, Sanderson became involved in the field during the early 1980s as a writer for comic fanzines. From there, Sanderson broke into the comic book industry proper; he was first hired by DC Comics, where he was given the task of reading every comic book published by the company since 1935. His research was used by Marv Wolfman in writing Crisis on Infinite Earths and by Len Wein in writing Who's Who in the DC Universe. Sanderson then went to work for Marvel as their...
