Les Daniels , R.I.P.

[Emerkeith Davyjack]

Les Daniels , author of the pioneering early-70s comic book history , COMIX , has died .

  I only got the barest details from my Facebook feed so that's all for now .

  Daniels wrote numerous other comics/genre scene books , including glossy " official " books for DC , but that's the one I knew him best for .

  The book did what few histories of comics did , and offered ACTUAL REPRINTS! o full comics stories...From across the comics spectrum , including a PG-level selection of undergrounds...There's another book that involved reprints that I've been meaning to post about , here , but I thought I'd put Daniels for his newsworthiness first...

[ClarkKent_DC]

Wow. I read COMIX cover to cover several times at my friendly neighborhood library before I got my own copy, years later. It introduced me to an entire world -- no, several -- that I never knew existed.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

That's too bad. I've never read COMIX, but those Marvel and DC histories are wonderful references.

[KSwolf]

I loved his "Complete History" series of books featuring Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman and always wished that he had done more of them with other characters.

[Henry R. Kujawa]

I knew nothing about COMIX except that I'd seen an ad for it in Warren magazines back then.  About a year or so back, I ran across a reference to it (at the GCD, probably), did some research, and wound up adding it to the SA Marvel site on various "Reprints" pages.  (It continues to frustrate that i put in such an insane amount of work on that site and the blasted host in Norway just took it down without any explanantion or response.)

 

Format-wise, it seemed a wider-reaching alternate to Jules Feiffer's book, THE GREAT COMIC-BOOK HEROES.  (But then, I've never read it, I've only seen the contents list.)