Exactly 12 cents and Other Convictions: Four Imaginary Letters - Softcover

Davies, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550222309 ISBN 13: 9781550222302

Publisher: ECW Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is a book of observation and comment about comic books, in particular the Marvel hero comics of the early 1960s and the influence those stories and drawings had on the lives of the young people that grew up with them. The topic is not brought under hard analysis: the comics were originally written for entertainment, and the author's views on them in turn are offered through conversational letters, addressed to two of the founders of the art-form at Marvel.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Davies has been employed in consulting, commercial art, publishing, technical writing, business management, and computer programming and application design for thirty-seven years, with eleven books published and available at Amazon. More recently, Paul has been involved in the transcription of Tibetan language liturgical texts, producing twenty-six prayer books and a number of large flags since 2005.

Review:

The text deftly evokes the monumental significance of small things to children and youths, and the heady feeling of building an inner world within a newly discovered shared culture of like-minded people. --Paragraph

Davies possesses a probing intelligence with insights and ideas. --Quill & Quire

About this edition

• Publisher: ECW Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1550222309
• ISBN 13: 9781550222302
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48